The unfortunate set of circumstances surrounding the loss of both Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 led to the immediate grounding of the advertised ‘incredibly fuel efficient' Boeing 737-MAX. The side-effects of the decision to ground such flights led to delays and...

The paper presents a novel analysis specifically investigating as to whether stocks associated with leading blockchain patent-developments influence the price volatility of Bitcoin across multiple time frequencies. It is important to further develop our understanding of the inter-dynamics...

This paper investigates whether companies that initiated blockchain-development as a primary short-term corporate strategy, exhibited abnormal corporate performance as conditioned by financial performance, leverage, social media sentiment and previous experience of technological development....

One of the key sub-sectors in the aviation industry includes that of engine manufacturers, who have long led technological advancement and the battle to reduce airline carbon emissions. However, these same companies have been susceptible to a number of issues that have been central to...

The ownership structures of European banks are today quite different relative to those before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), particularly due to new takeovers, government guarantees, bailouts, and other defensive market responses post-GFC. These new ownership structures raise questions as to...

We comparatively assess drivers of DeFi token prices, testing the impact and connectedness between Bitcoin (as a cryptocurrency asset-class leader), Ethereum (as a platform for DeFi), and Google Trends (as a signal of investor attention). While we evidence varying causal linkages between Bitcoin...

This paper investigates the non-linear causal nexus at lower, medium, and upper quantiles that cryptocurrencies can generate as a hedging mechanism for international benchmark indices, as represented by the MSCI World index and its sectoral sub-indices. Significant causality-in-mean between each...

Contracts for Difference (CFDs) have existed for less than twenty years and the market has grown significantly up to the period before the recent international crises. This paper presents an analysis of how CFDs have affected equity market volatility in Ireland. EGARCH models are used to uncover...