Crude oil is prone to large upward price shocks, creating challenges for personal and corporate budgeting. In this paper, we systematically assess a range of possible shock havens against large oil price shocks. Empirical tests uncover a rich set of assets which act both as hedges and shock...

The changing patterns of risk aversion of traditional financial assets may follow a non-linear, counter-cyclical, process. However, research in this area has not considered the effects of the rapidly developing cryptocurrency markets. Given the distinct features and growing impact of...

The paper considers the potential motives for Central Banks’ issuance of digital currencies (hereafter CBDC), where an important issue relates to the risk they might subsequently carry due to the potential misuse of CBDC and the distrust of nations acting outside of expected norms. Against...

Pump-and-dumps represent planned systems to artificially inflate asset values, usually through the dissemination of positive, and often false statements surrounding the future expected value of a financial asset. After purchasing the assets and taking advantage of the momentum generated in the...

This paper applies a TVP-VAR model to explore dynamic connectedness between West Texas Intermediate crude oil and other US energy prices, stock prices and exchange rate markets during the April 2020 supply shock leading to negative WTI crude oil prices. This period, while coinciding with the...

Intertwined with the persisting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, the price of WTI crude oil futures became negative on April 20, 2020. This anomalous incident has drawn much attention within the literature. This paper attempts to investigate the origins and specific impacts...

In this paper, we investigate both constant and time-varying hedge ratios in terms of the effectiveness of CSI300 index futures during the COVID-19 crisis. Using naïve, OLS and EC/ROLS strategies to estimate constant hedge ratios, results indicate that the CSI300 spot index presents decreased...

This paper investigates, for the first time, the presence of financial contagion among several important Chinese coronavirus concept-based stock indices during the recent COVID-19 global pandemic. We utilise a regime-switching skew-normal (RSSN) methodology to test for contagion through the...

The introduction of futures contracts on an asset is often heralded as an indicator of market maturity. In this paper, we revisit the currently, mixed empirical evidence relating to price discovery between Bitcoin spot and futures markets. Confirming previous findings, information share (IS) and...

We examine the interactions between cryptocurrency price volatility and liquidity during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence suggests that these developing digital products have played a new role as a potential safe-haven during periods of substantial financial market panic. Results...