Financial Sentiment Analysis (FSA) is an important domain application of sentiment analysis
that has gained increasing attention in the past decade. FSA research falls into two main …

While it is known that emotions affect financial markets, there has been little collective
examination of the literature in terms of identifying, for instance, which emotions, under what …

This paper proposes a new approach to estimating investor sentiments and their
implications for the global financial markets. Contextualising the COVID-19 pandemic, we …

Behavioral finance studies reveal that investor sentiment affects investment decisions and
may therefore affect stock pricing. This paper examines whether the geographic proximity of …

Do happier people care more, or less, about other people's problems? Indirectly to this
question we investigate whether markets in happier countries are less affected by tragic …

We examine the relation of soft factors that are derived from the description texts to the
probability of successful funding and to the default probability in peer-to-peer lending for two …

Bitcoin is a well-established blockchain-based cryptocurrency that has attracted a great deal
of attention from media and regulators alike. While millions of individuals invest in bitcoin …

The general level of optimism/pessimism in society is reflected by the emotions of financial
decision-makers. Because these emotions are correlated across economic participants, our …

Preventing volatility spillovers between energy markets is essential for maintaining financial
stability. Macroprudential policies play an invaluable tool in financial risk monitoring and …

Observed by more than 1.5 billion Muslims, Ramadan is one of the most celebrated religious
traditions in the world. We investigate stock returns during Ramadan for 14 predominantly …