This study examines the co-movement and time-varying integration between equity, exchange rate, and international market volatility indices across different time-frequency domains using - bi-partial wavelet, - supplemented by dynamic conditional correlation-generalised autoregressive conditional...

The aim of this study is to explore and investigate empirically the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on price and volume dynamics in crypto markets. The study makes use of two data samples, but these samples are analyzed separately and independently. The first sample consists of top five crypto...

We explore the relationship between the returns of 45 dry bulk shipping company stock prices and the main 15 commodities that bulk carriers transport. Using a principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the commodities dataset and a panel methodology, we find that a change in...

How do investors choose the intensity of their due diligence, and how does that choice affect investment outcomes? Using cell phone signal data, we measure the duration of pre-investment meetings between venture capitalists (VCs) and startup employees. This measure captures one important...

This paper examines how offering sustainable investment options influences sustainable consumption behavior. We combine a natural experiment in which individuals receive an option to switch to a pension plan with a strong sustainability profile with detailed household register data. This...

Using the GJR-GARCH method, this study examines the safe-haven role of gold, US dollar, and Bitcoin over a period including the global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict from 3 April 2006 to 19 May 2023. The study supports the hypothesis that the safe-haven...

Wealth distribution and climate risks are two great challenges of our time. This paper proposes a new type of tax to correct the disparity of wealth distribution and help to finance (and accelerate) the green transition. Our proposal is a Carbon-based Wealth Tax (CWT) that should be levied on...

This paper explores how the low-carbon transition affects firms' credit ratings and market-implied distance-to-default. We develop a novel dataset covering firms' greenhouse gas emissions alongside climate disclosure and forward-looking emission reduction targets. Panel regression analysis...

This paper examines the treatment of sovereign debt exposure within the Basel framework and measures the impact of bank regulation on the demand of Monetary Financial Institutions (MFI) for marketable sovereign debt. Our results suggest that bank regulation has a significant positive impact on...

Empirical studies investigate various causes and effects of sustainable investments. While some attempts have been made to describe the results found by theoretical models, these are relatively complex and idiosyncratic. We relate to existing studies and use a parsimonious CAPM in which we model...