Investor Sentiment

Mai, Pukthuanthong and Zhou (2022) published a paper studying the return predictability of investor sentiment across four different asset classes including both traditional financial assets and bitcoin. The full paper can be found on SSRN: Mai, Pukthuanthong and Zhou (2022) An early study by Baker and Wurgler (2006) provides some empirical justifications of using investorContinue reading “Investor Sentiment”

Slowdown in Global Productivity

“Once electronics were small enough to be used in almost all industries, their effect on productivity vanished.” – Pablo Azar This article summarizes the main points from Azar’s 2022 paper of ‘Moore’s Law and Economic Growth’ . Azar uses his novel dataset to study the how the size of semiconductor impact GDP growth. The globalContinue reading “Slowdown in Global Productivity”