The rapid development of cryptocurrencies motivates us to examine the factors that drive cryptocurrency prices. Using Google attention innovation ($GAI$) to measure network hype or investor speculation, this paper investigates the effect of network hype in the cryptocurrency market and proposes...

In this study, we use bank loan information to construct proxies for corporate transparency and examine whether these measures reflect information asymmetry in the stock market. Our analysis is based on a novel dataset of stock transactions and bank loans of all publicly listed firms on the...

Background: Once a global financial crisis breaks out, the interdependence between different financial markets suddenly increases and leads to a significant contagion. Methods: With 39 countries used as samples, this paper analyzes the interdependence between the stock market and the government...

Previous studies show that individual investors play a dominant role in China's stock market. Their behavior of chasing-rise being stronger than killing-fall leads to asymmetry of feedback trading. Our article investigates how mutual funds react to this market force. Using China's stock and fund...

Recently, tail risks have attracted much attention in the literature for their role in predicting the cross-sectional expected returns of stocks. Using a modified conditional value at risk (CVaR), the extreme loss and gain of stocks can be measured using the left-tail CVaR- and the right-tail...