This study aims at comparing Google Search Volume Indices (GSVIs—including market crash and bear market) and VIX (Investor Fear Gauge Index) in terms of explaining the S&P 500 returns. The VIX is found a more robust predictor of stock market returns than Google indices, and it does granger...

This study investigates investors’ herd behavior at market and industry level in Pakistan stock exchange (PSX). The novel contribution of this study is the incorporation of stock trading volume to explore the herding behavior laterally with daily stock returns. Using daily observations of the...

This paper aims to analyze the print media coverage of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to trace the changes in investor positive and negative market attentions and their impact on stock market returns. We access the daily and weekly coverage of CPEC by national and international...

This paper aims to measure the positive (Expectations) and negative (Fears) investor sentiment about the ongoing economic conditions and analyze both sentiments for changes in stock market returns. Following the method proposed by Da et al. (2014), this study estimates the investor’s economic...

The geopolitical risk found to be a relevant factor for investors to choose Islamic stock investment. This study focuses on the short-run and long-run asymmetric significance of geopolitical risk on Islamic stock market returns. Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributive Lag (NARDL) model has been...

This study cross-checks the symmetric and asymmetric effects of investor’s optimistic and pessimistic sentiments of Bitcoin on 23 sectoral stock return indices (10 Islamic stock sectoral indices and one composite Islamic market index by Dow Jones Islamic market and 12 industrial indices by...

The returns predictions and price movements of financial markets are predicted through online search engines. These search engines claim to trade sentiments of individual investors. This study aims to determine the changes in the American stock market returns due to Bitcoin investors’...