We review the literature on gold as an investment. We summarize a wide variety of literature,
including the papers in this special issue of International Review of Financial Analysis to …

Investor sentiment indicates how far an asset value deviates from its economic
fundamentals. In this article, we review various measures of investor sentiment based on …

This paper provides a systematic review of the empirical literature based on the major topics
that have been associated with the market for cryptocurrencies since their development as a …

We examine the existence and dates of pricing bubbles in Bitcoin and Ethereum, two
popular cryptocurrencies using the (Phillips et al., 2011) methodology. In contrast to …

Most of the limited evidence on the exponential price spikes (ie price explosivity) in the
cryptocurrency market mainly considers the case of Bitcoin, although other cryptocurrencies …

Amid its rapidly increasing usage and immense public interest the subject of Bitcoin has
raised profound economic and societal issues. In this paper we undertake economic and …

Recent work on econometric detection mechanisms has shown the effectiveness of
recursive procedures in identifying and dating financial bubbles in real time. These …

The creation of bitcoin heralded the arrival of digital or crypto-currency and has been
regarded as a phenomenon. Since its introduction, it has experienced a meteoric rise in …

Crude oil is the world's largest energy commodity, and its domestic and international
supplies affect the short-term and long-term economic balances of many countries. It also …

In this note, we utilize hourly exchange rate data for Japanese Yen, Canadian dollar,
European Euro and the British pound to search for possible bubble type behavior. We …