The current study contributes to the banking literature by testing the joint impacts of competition and profitability on different types of risk (credit risk, liquidity risk, capital risk and insolvency risk) of a sample of Chinese commercial banks over the period 2003-2015 under an ordinary...

This paper examines the impact of economic uncertainty shocks on the populist voting behavior in the panel dataset of 24 European Union (EU) countries for the period from 1980 to 2020. In so doing, we focus on the shares of total populism, right-wing populism, and left-wing populism votes as...

Using the daily frequency data for the period from August 9, 2015, to July 7, 2020, this paper re-examines the effects of the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on returns of four cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. For this purpose, two new measures of the EPU...

Using data from the World Uncertainty, World Trade Uncertainty, and World Pandemic Uncertainty indices for 142 countries, this paper introduces three new indicators for measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets from the first quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2020. The indicators...

This paper aims to measure the level of economic and financial uncertainty in Turkey. More specifically, it constructs a search-based ‘Turkish Economic and Financial Uncertainty Index' (TEFUI) and employs the real-time monthly Google Trends data to cover the period from January 2004 to...

We construct a theoretical model to capture the compensation and efficiency effects of globalization in a set up where the redistributive tax rate is chosen by the median voter. The model predicts that the two alternative modes of globalization- trade liberalization and financial openness- could...