I propose a new investor sentiment measurement for the private equity market based on over 12,000 private equity deals from 68 countries over 1992 to 2012. The data indicate that institutional environments and firm-specific characteristics are both strong determinants of the private equity...

This paper aims to find the effectiveness of Cryptocurrency on well-formed portfolio with assets like Commodities, Exchange Traded Fund (ETFs), Stock assets and currency value of INR. There are several ways to determine the effectiveness in diversification. In this paper we use SOLVER, Modern...

Australian Steve Keen was, in fact, one of just 13 registered economists , out of a global total of around 36,000 (yes that really comes out as 0.04%), who actually anticipated the global financial crisis.Knowing this, I think it’s almost impossible not to want to read his latest book,...

This paper explores the opportunities of momentum and contrarian profits on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during quiet and turbulent times. In our investigation we employ daily values of the main indexes from the Bucharest Stock Exchange for two periods of time. During the first period, from...

The history of banking provides a view that banks are often a liability to stable economies and their behavior can promote inequality, especially when they are involved in imprudent manipulation of credit and money and require government bailouts. What is the future of capitalism without banks,...

We provide a summarized description of cryptocurrencies and their relationship with other fiat currencies globally. We discuss whether the popularity of cryptocurrency is more akin to Tulip-mania or the digital currency for future generations

We analyzed power law (Pareto) distributions of one-minute oil prices through the US Oil Fund (Ticker symbol USO), from January 1 through March 31, 2011. Using the daily power law exponent, α, we determined a critical value which predicted a price trend reversal. This critical value, estimated...

The financial crisis of 2007 sparked intensive debates on its origins. The Turner Review, published on 18 March 2009, firmly places securitisation at its heart. However, even the critics admit that this type of transaction is viewed as “socially desirable”. The paper explicitly shows how the...

This paper analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the share prices of gold firms, whose activities are spread across gold exploration, project development and gold mining with markedly different risk characteristics. We find evidence for COVID-induced stock market contagion leading...

India is big country with the population of 1.210 billion of which about 172 million (14%) are Muslims.We are having the conventional system of banking and finance which is based on only interest. A common practice seen here is anyone who is having any surplus money would be interested in...