This short paper identifies an insidious pattern in the United States (US) pharmaceutical industry: while drug prices are skyrocketing, insurers are perfectly shielding patients from higher costs at the pharmacy checkout, letting patients live in a "bubble" of price insulation. As drug prices...

We investigate how risky health behaviors and self-reported health vary with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and during stock market crashes. Because stock market indices are leading indicators of economic performance, this research contributes to our understanding of the macro-economic...

The "three-child policy" is a unique population policy in China. Previous studies have shown that demographic policies are related to the performance of related stocks and affect economic development. I studied the impact of the introduction of the "three- child policy" on the stock performance...

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the notion that cryptocurrencies are uncorrelated with traditional asset markets. This study uses VAR-OLS techniques to investigate the time-varying correlation between Bitcoin and three major European stock market indices from January 4, 2016, to February...

This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...

Using several proxies for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), we find that SAD negatively affects IPO first trading day return (underpricing) during the 1981-1989 and 1999-2000 periods, but not during the 1990-1998 and 2001-2007 periods. During those periods when SAD affects IPO underpricing,...