By computing a volatility index (CVX) from cryptocurrency option prices, we analyze this market's expectation of future volatility. Our method addresses the challenging liquidity environment of this young asset class and allows us to extract stable market implied volatilities. Two alternative...

Quantitative investment strategies are often selected from a broad class of candidate models estimated and tested on historical data. Standard statistical technique to prevent model overfitting such as out-sample back-testing turns out to be unreliable in the situation when selection is based on...

The fundamental aim of our analysis is to explain the microcredit impact for the exclusion. Otherwise, excluded is an unemployment that needs a job to live. Micro finance considers a market to employ outreach with micro loan product. Then, their beneficiary found a solution to be included in the...

This paper formulates an Early Warning System (EWS) for systemic risks based on forecasts of Expected Shortfalls (ES) of real and financial indicators integrated with structural stress-tests via a structural VAR. The EWS delivers early warning signals as probabilities of tail risk realizations,...

We analyse minute-level multi-dimensional information flows within and between bitcoin spot and derivatives. We show that perpetual swaps and futures traded on the unregulated exchanges Huobi, OKEx and BitMEX are much the strongest instruments for bitcoin price discovery and we examine potential...