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The COVID-19 continues to hit the world economy as well as the financial markets. As a result of the coronavirus spread across all continents, the majority of t

The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is putting unprecedented strain on markets, governments, businesses and individuals. The human, economic and financial costs are

The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is currently raging throughout the world. The ensuing crisis has acquired a multidimensional nature, affecting all levels

This article argues that economic and political developments in the last fifty years have in many respects undermined America’s democratic institutions and that

DeFi (‘decentralized finance’) has joined FinTech (‘financial technology’), RegTech (‘regulatory technology’), cryptocurrencies, and digital assets as one of th

This article presents several theories of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion is defined as the availability of, and the ease of access to, basic formal fi

This paper conducts a textual analysis of earnings call transcripts to quantify climate risk exposure at the firm level. We construct dictionaries that measure

Turning points are the Achilles’ heel of time-series momentum portfolios. Slow signals fail to react quickly to changes in trend while fast signals are often fa

Fintech is financial technology; Fintech provides alternative solutions for banking services and non-banking finance services. Fintech is an emerging concept in

Value investing, as defined by the Fama–French HML factor, has underperformed growth investing since 2007, producing a drawdown of 55% as of mid-2020. The under

Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform

Correlation matrices are ubiquitous in finance. Some key applications include portfolio construction, risk management, and factor/style analysis. Correlation ma

Over the past decade a long-term process of digitization of finance has increasingly combined with datafication and new technologies including cloud computing,

Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform

Purpose – Financial ratios are an instrumental tool in the world of finance and hence comprehensive knowledge of its various aspects is mandated for its user. T

Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outlin

This free software guide for Python with freely downloadable datasets brings the econometric techniques to life, showing readers how to implement the approaches

This paper shows how sustainable investing—through the joint practice of exclusionary screening and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration—affe

The U.S. economy exhibits high inequality and low economic mobility across generations relative to other high-income countries. The U.S. will need to raise more

Using ESG ratings from seven different data providers for a sample of S&P 500 firms between 2010 and 2017, we study the relation between ESG rating disagree