Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated experts like community organizers and police...

We find a significant negative relationship between stock returns during the week and the reported incidence of domestic violence during the weekend. Our findings suggest that wealth shocks caused by the stock market can affect stress levels within families, escalate arguments, and trigger...

This paper explores how equity market volatility are related with the Index of Economic Freedom for 22 emerging countries over 1995-2010 by considering the impacts of financial crisis. Consistent with theory, we find the overall economic freedom index and it components exert significant impacts...

The paper's purpose is to investigate dynamics of the Vietnamese stock market with other stocks markets around the world since understanding the linkages is important for assessing investment and managing financial risk. To this end, we employed a structural Vector Autoregression (VAR) model to...

The role of race in American society is evolving driven by law-enforcement-linked Black deaths, Black Lives Matter protests, counter-protests, debates about Confederate monuments, and other race-related events. This raises questions about how changes in bias, systemic racism, and diversity...

This paper gives an overview of some issues related to market valuation, focusing on the developments on the New York equity markets. The 42.4 p.c. fall in the S&P 500 price index between 24 March 2000 - when it reached its all-time high - and 31 December 2002 is situated in a very long term...