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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Diversifying Environmental, Social and Governance Portfolios: Evidence From China
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study extends traditional portfolio optimization methods by incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance measures into diversification strategies, specifically focusing on data from the Chinese stock market. By integrating ESG scores and their constituent components (E, S and G), the study examines portfolio ...
Danyang Li +3 more
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The Ethanol Mandate and Downside Risk in Agriculture
, 2016 Levi A. Russell +7 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines risk transmission and co‐movements between financial markets (G7 countries and China) and commodity markets (gold and oil) during the COVID‐19 crisis. Daily closing prices for major equity indices (CAC40, CSI300, DAX30, FTSE100, MIB, NIKKEI, TSX and S&P500) and futures prices for gold, brent and WTI were analysed using DCC ...
V. Moutinho +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the intricate relationship between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and energy market dynamics, focusing on fossil‐based and renewable/low‐carbon energy assets. Utilising a comprehensive dataset spanning from April 1987 to December 2023, comprising monthly observations of CPU, stock market returns, spot oil prices and ...
Dimitrios Asteriou, Anastasia Dimiski
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Carbon Performance, Climate Governance, and Equity Risk
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between carbon performance, climate governance, and equity risk. Using a sample of companies listed in the S&P500 index for the period 2009–2023, our results show that better carbon performance reduces equity risk, indicating that proactive carbon management reduces uncertainty and is beneficial to firms ...
Malafronte Irma +2 more
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Risk Forecasting in Shipping Exchange‐Traded‐Fund (ETF) Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the risk properties of freight‐derivative‐based exchange‐traded funds (ETFs), focusing on the Breakwave Dry Bulk Shipping ETF (BDRY), and evaluates the accuracy of Value‐at‐Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) forecasts across a range of econometric models.
Christos Katris +2 more
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels +3 more
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