Purpose – This chapter examines the roles and challenges for the Irish economy in the aftermath of the collapse of the Celtic Tiger and the onset of the 2008 economic crisis. Specifically it does review the role that Government, the Central Bank of Ireland, and the Financial Regulator had...

Recently a range of alternative risk premia products have been developed promising investors hedge fund/CTA like returns with higher liquidity, transparency and relatively low fees. The attractiveness of these products rests on the assumption that they can deliver similar returns. Using a novel...

We show that fund-specific return skewness is associated with managerial skill and future hedge fund performance. Specifically, skewness in fund returns reflects managerial skill in avoiding large drawdowns. Using a new measure of investment skill that accounts for this managerial ability, we...

Compounding can make things appear to be larger than they really are. This confusion can arise when the return from an event is compounded over a long holding-period, and the return from compounding is described as the return from the event. This paper reviews several examples of this common...

Money is not everything in life but money is the most important need of everyone's life. This paper describes the value of money which changed over a period of time. It also explain the important factor i.e. interest, due to which the value of money changes. This paper also discussed the...

Recent research suggests that improper identification of outliers can lead to distorted inference. We investigate this issue by examining the role that multivariate outliers play in research outcomes using the Chen, Hong, Huang, and Kubik (2004) study. We find that the documented negative...

There is a growing literature examining futures based trading strategies and the performance of Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs). In this paper, we test the validity of three key assumptions used in these studies. The validity of basing conclusions on analysis of synthetic rather than market...

Firms in the financial services industry have been faced with the dramatic and relatively recent emergence of new technology innovations, and process disruptions. The industry as a whole, and many new fintech start-ups are looking for new pathways to successful business models, the creation of...

We provide large-scale evidence on the occurrence and value of FinTech innovation. Using a unique dataset of patent filings covering 2003-2017, we apply text-based machine learning to identify and classify innovations according to their key underlying technologies. To measure the value of...

This study explores the integration of the markets for NYSE-listed stocks. Although the NYSE bid or offer is part of the best displayed intermarket quote roughly ninety percent of the time, there is some evidence that non-NYSE markets do on occasion contribute to price discovery. Actual...