In this paper, we analyze the connection between climate change and stock return volatility. We use temperature anomalies to measure climate change and examine the role of technology shocks. Our study covers decades of data from 1880 to 2018, and we use a new dataset to track technology shocks....

Although the relationship between economic freedom and equity returns has been investigated in the literature, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) equity markets were usually excluded. The aim of this paper is to fill in this gap by examining the relationship between economic freedom index...