We develop a new oil price uncertainty index (OPUX) based on newspaper and social networking coverage. Our index improves on the existing oil ETF volatility index (OVX) because financial markets are inefficient insofar as prices do not reflect all information (Shiller, 1981). Several pieces of...

As of 8/31/2020, the market cap (value) of Facebooks is $835.2 Billion, while the sum market caps of arguably top 5 Banks combined (J.P Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi Group) only $816.7 Billion. In fact, Facebook cap is 10 times larger than Morgan Stanley, the lead...

We demonstrate that since the early 1990's, it is becoming increasingly common for firms to be run by CEOs who are aligned with the Democratic Party, which we refer to as the blue trend. We find evidence that at least one factor driving this trend appears to be the rise of the role of women, who...

We perform 360 review on the state of Qatar’s geopolitical and geoeconomics to analyze it strengths and weaknesses. Then, we provide recommendations to aid policy makers and the business community on the proper policies and investments needed to enhance the economic growth and development. The...

This study analyses the impact of Federal Chairman’s seniority, proxy by term and/or month in office, on economic policy uncertainty and on bonds rates. Our key hypotheses are rational expectation and behavioral aspect. The rational hypotheses suggests that as the Federal Reserve Chairman...

This paper presents a Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) index. The index is constructed via three equally weighted FOMO components: (1) FOMO momentum: short-long moving average; (2) FOMO news sentiment: Google search trend; and (3) FOMO risk: investor margin account usage. Applying the FOMO monthly index...