This article investigates the roles of psychological biases for deviations between subjective survival beliefs
(SSBs) and objective survival probabilities. We model these deviations through age-dependent inverse ...
This paper investigates the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate tax rates in a panel dataset of 126 countries throughout 2003–2018. We use the so-called “World Uncertainty Index” to measure the ...
This paper provides a novel perspective in determining the Granger causality of sentiment across the US, Latin America, Eurozone, Japan and Asia (excluding Japan), based on monthly data covering the period of January ...
We analyse the ability of a newspaper-based metric of uncertainty of the United States in predicting housing market movements using daily data over the period 2nd August, 2007 to 24th June, 2020. For our purpose, we use a ...
In this paper, we assess the dynamic impact of the U.S. monetary policy announcements on oil market futures returns and volatility. We use intra-day data for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures together with a ...
This paper provides a novel perspective on the predictive ability of credit rating announcements over stock market returns and volatility using a novel methodology that formally distinguishes between different market states ...
Even though energy poverty has been widely discussed in many countries, only a few studies attempt to understand the nexus of race and energy poverty. To fill the gap in the literature, this study analyses the effect of ...
Mabugu, Tichinashe; Inglesi-Lotz, Roula(Taylor and Francis, 2022)
Since 2008, the South African economy has experienced several power cuts (unplanned or as part of a load-shedding schedule), presumably because of the inability of the electricity supply to cover the demand. This paper ...
Environmental concerns have become one of the top inevitable issues the world has been facing nowadays. Human-induced carbon emissions are the main reasons behind these environmental issues and to reduce them and mitigate ...
The economic development literature widely concurs that conflicts have adverse economic consequences that contribute to poverty, disinvestment and lower human capital leading to widespread inequality and lower economic ...
The South African private health care market combines a highly concentrated demand side with expensive medical services. This combination suggests that medical insurance schemes are not using their full market power. To ...
Utilizing a measure of the Bitcoin network’s daily electricity load, we document a significant volatility effect of Bitcoin mining activity in three prominent electricity markets in the U.S. The volatility effect is found ...
Gupta, Rangan; Sheng, Xin; Van Eyden, Renee; Wohar, Mark E.(Elsevier, 2021-11)
We analyse the impact of oil supply, global economic activity, oil-specific consumption demand and oil inventory demand shocks on state-level real housing returns of the United States (US) over the monthly period of 1975:02 ...
The resource curse is sometimes associated with poor resource-rich countries. However, using panel evidence from the United States, we find that the resource curse is also prevalent in a wealthy resource-rich country. This ...
Canarella, Giorgio; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Gupta, Rangan; Miller, Stephen M.(Springer, 2022-11)
This paper investigates whether the real interest rate parity (RIRP) is valid during the three waves of globalizations that occurred in the last 150 years (1870–1914, 1944–1971, 1989 to the present). If any, these periods ...
Using monthly data for the period from 1916 to 2020, we report that geopolitical risk, when decomposed into threats and actual risk, has predictive value for tail risk in the oil market. When we study the full sample of ...
We examine the relationship between investor sentiment and connectedness patterns across global stock markets within a quantile-on-quantile framework. Our findings show that investor happiness has a significant effect on ...
We examine, using aggregate and sectoral U.S. data for the period 2008–2020, the predictive power of disentangled oil-price shocks for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) realized market variance via the heterogeneous ...
In this study, we estimate a multi-country Threshold-Augmented Global Vector Autoregressive (TGVAR) model to analyze the response of real GDP of emerging economies (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) with reference ...