The advent and development of digital technologies has had a significant impact on the
establishment of contracts. Smart contracts are designed as computer code containing …

Capital structure studies of financial institutions have observed identical facts to those of non-
financial corporations, especially in relation to capital structure adjustments (dynamic trade …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the key factors influencing stock
market movements, using a multifactor hierarchical approach. By applying interpretive …

Digital platforms are organized by some of the world's largest firms to serve multiple
interconnected markets. Facebook is a giant firm that organizes a marketplace, and we use it …

We assess the impact of trade fragmentation in equity markets using volatility networks
following the volatility-of-volatility (VoV) approach. VoV networks offer an original method for …

Carbon offsets are a critical factor in addressing the harmful effects of climate change. The
recent growth in voluntary carbon offsets is a welcome development in a setting dominated …

Insider trading is not widely understood. Insiders of corporations can, in fact, buy and sell
shares of those corporations. But, over time, Congress, the courts and the Securities and …

Financial markets have been transformed into algorithmic realms, which have radically
altered humans' role in trading liquid financial instruments. Compliance officers, risk …

Some of the problems inherent in the structure of Financial Indices, ETFs and Index Funds
were discussed in earlier chapters in this book—and the large size of the Global Index …

This paper has the goal of analyzing the association between asymmetric information,
measured by Corwin-Schultz bid ask spread estimator, and stock prices in the Brazilian …