The COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess ship has caused over 600 (still increasing) cases as of February 19, 2020. By using the growing process model, we demonstrated that this Diamond Princess cruise outbreak implies a short serial interval of COVID-19. Hence, timely contact tracing and...

This paper investigates whether media climate change concern (MCCC) predicts stock market excess returns by using data for 44 markets. We show that the predictability of the MCCC index is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the international equity market - the higher MCCC index predicts lower market...