Investor disagreement affects security prices and trading volumes. Thus, understanding how disagreement evolves among investors is an important issue in finance. In this paper, as a direct proxy for the public observable investor disagreement, we define social dispersion as the extent of opinion...

Market surveillance systems (MSSs) are increasingly used to monitor trading activities in financial markets to maintain market integrity. Existing MSSs primarily focus on statistical analysis of market activity data and largely ignore textual market information, including, but not limited to,...

Background: The rapid development of the blockchain technology and its various applications has rendered it important to understand the guidelines for adopting it. Methods: The comparative analysis method is used to analyze different dimensions of the maturity model, which is mainly based on the...