The stock market dynamics in March was affected by several developments, such as a decrease in oil futures prices and the crisis situation in Cyprus. From the beginning of the month the growth was replaced by a reverse trend. The dynamics of stock market indices has led to a decrease in...

In December 2012, the Russian financial markets demonstrated a similar trend to the previous months, characterized by significant volatility. An average monthly trading volume of the Russian Federation for the period increased by 4%, while the market for government securities and futures...

The new year’s beginning was marked by a generally positive behavior of the stock market. The quotation changes displayed by major Blue Chips over January were multi-vectored. At the same time, it should be noted that the observed growth in prices was sustained by Russian investors, while...

In October 2012, continuing instability of the global economy has resulted in the sustained high volatility of the Russian financial market. The average daily turnover of the government securities market has increased by 51% over the month, while the turnover in the RF securities market has...

The stock market’s behavior was influenced in the main by the declining oil futures prices. The negative dynamics of stock indexes resulted in a drop of the stock market’s capitalization over the month by 3.71%; however, Blue Chips demonstrated growth to 9.07% per month and to 13.81% per...

The Russian stock market in February was characterized by a minor correction in prices of majority of securities traded in the market, after growth in the previous two months. Oil futures have de¬clined on average by 2.2%. Dollar exchange rate remained at the level below Rb/Dollar 30.35, while...

The "Big Twenty" fears of a slowdown in the global economy, downgrading of France credit rating and volatility of oil prices have led to deterioration in the Russian financial markets in November 2012. Herewith, the average daily market turnover of governmental securities has decreased most...

This paper describes the ecology of automated market makers (AMMs), which are the most popular decentralized exchange model for the pricing and trading of crypto assets within decentralized finance. We use blockchain data to identify trends in user adoption and trading volumes of AMMs. Given the...

This paper studies the role of narratives for macroeconomic fluctuations. We micro-found narratives as directed acyclic graphs and show how exposure to different narratives can affect expectations in an otherwise standard macroeconomic model. We capture such competing narratives in news media's...

We offer retrospective and prospective assessments of the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness research program, combined with personal recollections of its development. Its centerpiece in many respects is Diebold and Yilmaz (2014), around which our discussion is organized.