We study potential drivers for a large cross-section of commodity futures. Unlike previous studies, we examine the effect of monthly drivers on daily returns using mixed-frequency Granger causality tests. We find real economic activity as a main driver on a monthly basis, whereas financial...

This paper investigates whether macroeconomic and data transparency standards lead to lower borrowing costs in sovereign bond markets. We essentially show that emerging market countries which subscribed to the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) experienced a significant decline in...

This paper examines the effects of China’s monetary policy on global commodity prices over the quarterly period 1990:1-2021:4. Using a Bayesian Structural VAR model, we identify shocks to the interest rate as a price rule and the monetary aggregate (M2) as a quantity rule in China and evaluate...

The paper uncovers the volatility spillovers in tails between non-fungible token (NFT) markets and bitcoin from 2019 to 2021. The results show that the NFTs and bitcoin are less connected in the left tail (bearish markets) in comparison to the right tail. It reveals that the Art NFT market has...

We examine the systematic impact of broker network connectivity on future returns in a centralized limit order book (CLOB) market. For all stocks traded in Borsa Istanbul between March 2005 and November 2015, we estimate network density, reciprocity, and average weighted clustering coefficients...

This paper investigates the diversification contribution of four main precious metals (i.e., gold, silver, platinum, and palladium) to a traditional portfolio of stocks, bonds, cash, and currencies, as well as the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 on that contribution. We use a...

This paper examines the impact of corporate diversification and firm size on the value creation over the 1997-2005 period for twenty-five non-banking firms listed on Tunis Stock Exchange. Our results confirm previous studies in that shares of diversified firms sell at a discount. Moreover, value...

This paper examines how much the volatility of sovereign bond markets in emerging Latin American countries is influenced by the volatility shocks to global and regional markets. After estimating the Generalised AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH)-based conditional volatility...