Lee A. Smales

University of Western Australia

Associate Professor

UWA Business School

35 Stirling Highway

Perth, Western Australia 6009

Australia

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Citation 20

Nonstandard Errors

Journal of Finance, Volume 79, Issue 3, June 2024, Pages 2339-2390.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 23 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
Albert J. Menkveld, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Michael Razen, Utz Weitzel, David Abad, Menachem (Meni) Abudy, Tobias Adrian, Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Olivier Akmansoy, Jamie Alcock, Vitali Alexeev, Arash Aloosh, Livia Amato, Diego Amaya, James Angel, Amadeus Bach, Edwin Baidoo, Gaetan Bakalli, Andrea Barbon, Oksana Bashchenko, Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Geir Hoidal Bjonnes, Jeff Black, Bernard S. Black, Santiago Bohorquez, Oleg Bondarenko, Charles S. Bos, Ciril Bosch-Rosa, Elie Bouri, Christian T. Brownlees, Anna Calamia, Viet Nga Cao, Gunther Capelle-Blancard, Laura Capera Romero, Massimiliano Caporin, Allen Carrion, Tolga Caskurlu, Bidisha Chakrabarty, Mikhail Chernov, William M. Cheung, Ludwig B. Chincarini, Tarun Chordia, Sheung Chi Chow, Benjamin Clapham, Jean-Edouard Colliard, Carole Comerton-Forde, Edward Curran, Thong Dao, Wale Dare, Ryan J. Davies, Riccardo De Blasis, Gianluca De Nard, Fany Declerck, Oleg Deev, Hans Degryse, Solomon Deku, Christophe Desagre, Mathijs A. van Dijk, Chukwuma Dim, Thomas Dimpfl, Yunjiang Dong, Philip Drummond, Tom L. Dudda, Ariadna Dumitrescu, Teodor Dyakov, Anne Haubo Dyhrberg, Michał Dzieliński, Asli Eksi, Izidin El Kalak, Saskia ter Ellen, Nicolas Eugster, Martin D.D. Evans, Michael Farrell, Ester Félez-Viñas, Gerardo Ferrara, El Mehdi FERROUHI, Andrea Flori, Jonathan Fluharty-Jaidee, Sean Foley, Kingsley Fong, Thierry Foucault, Tatiana Franus, Francesco A. Franzoni, Bart Frijns, Michael Frömmel, Servanna Mianjun Fu, Sascha Füllbrunn, Baoqing Gan, Thomas Gehrig, Dirk Gerritsen, Javier Gil-Bazo, Lawrence R. Glosten, Thomas Gomez, Arseny Gorbenko, Ufuk Güçbilmez, Joachim Grammig, Vincent Gregoire, Björn Hagströmer, Julien Hambuckers, Erik Hapnes, Jeffrey H. Harris, Lawrence Harris, Simon Hartmann, Jean-Baptiste Hasse, Nikolaus Hautsch, Xuezhong He, Davidson Heath, Simon Hediger, Terrence Hendershott, Ann Marie Hibbert, Erik Hjalmarsson, Seth A. Hoelscher, Peter Hoffmann, Craig W. Holden, Alex R. Horenstein, Wenqian Huang, Da Huang, Christophe Hurlin, Alexey Ivashchenko, Subramanian R. Iyer, Hossein Jahanshahloo, Naji Jalkh, Charles M. Jones, Simon Jurkatis, Petri Jylha, Andreas Kaeck, Gabriel Kaiser, Arzé Karam, Egle Karmaziene, Bernhard Kassner, Markku Kaustia, Ekaterina Kazak, Fearghal Kearney, Vincent van Kervel, Saad Khan, Marta Khomyn, Tony Klein, Olga Klein, Alexander Klos, Michael Koetter, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Aleksey Kolokolov, Robert A. Korajczyk, Roman Kozhan, Amy Kwan, Quentin Lajaunie, FY Eric C Lam, Marie Lambert, Hugues Langlois, Jens Lausen, Tobias Lauter, Markus Leippold, Vladimir Levin, Yijie Li, (Michael) Hui Li, Chee Yoong Liew, Thomas Lindner, Oliver B. Linton, Jiacheng Liu, Anqi Liu, Guillermo Llorente, Matthijs Lof, Ariel Lohr, Francis A. Longstaff, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Shawn Mankad, Nicola Mano, Alexis Marchal, Charles Martineau, Francesco Mazzola, Debrah Meloso, Roxana Mihet, Vijay Mohan, Sophie Moinas, David Moore, Liangyi Mu, Dmitriy Muravyev, Dermot Murphy, Gabor Neszveda, Christian Neumeier, Ulf Nielsson, Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Sven Nolte, Lars L. Norden, Peter O'Neill, Khaled Obaid, Bernt Arne Ødegaard, Per Östberg, Marcus Painter, Stefan Palan, Imon Palit, Andreas Park, Roberto Pascual, Paolo Pasquariello, Lubos Pastor, Vinay Patel, Andrew J. Patton, Neil D. Pearson, Loriana Pelizzon, Matthias Pelster, Christophe Pérignon, Cameron Pfiffer, Richard Philip, Tomáš Plíhal, Puneet Prakash, Oliver-Alexander Press, Tina Prodromou, Tālis J. Putniņš, Gaurav Raizada, David A. Rakowski, Angelo Ranaldo, Luca Regis, Stefan Reitz, Thomas Renault, Rex Wang Renjie, Roberto Renò, Steven Riddiough, Kalle Rinne, Paul Rintamäki, Ryan Riordan, Thomas Rittmannsberger, Iñaki Rodríguez-Longarela, Dominik Rösch, Lavinia Rognone, Brian Roseman, Ioanid Rosu, Saurabh Roy, Nicolas Rudolf, Stephen Rush, Khaladdin Rzayev, Aleksandra Rzeźnik, Anthony Sanford, Harikumar Sankaran, Asani Sarkar, Lucio Sarno, O. Scaillet, Stefan Scharnowski, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, Andrea Schertler, Michael Schneider, Florian Schroeder, Norman Schuerhoff, Philipp Schuster, Marco A. Schwarz, Mark S. Seasholes, Norman Seeger, Or Shachar, Andriy Shkilko, Jessica Shui, Mario Sikic, Giorgia Simion, Lee A. Smales, Paul Söderlind, Elvira Sojli, Konstantin Sokolov, Laima Spokeviciute, Denitsa Stefanova, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Sebastian Neusüss, Barnabas Szaszi, Oleksandr Talavera, Yuehua Tang, Nicholas Taylor, Wing Wah Tham, Erik Theissen, Julian Thimme, Ian Tonks, Hai Tran, Luca Trapin, Anders B. Trolle, Giorgio Valente, Robert A. Van Ness, Aurelio Vasquez, Thanos Verousis, Patrick Verwijmeren, Anders Vilhelmsson, Grigory Vilkov, Vladimir Vladimirov, Sebastian Vogel, Stefan Voigt, Wolf Wagner, Thomas Walther, Patrick Weiss, Michel van der Wel, Ingrid M. Werner, P. Joakim Westerholm, Christian Westheide, Evert Wipplinger, Michael Wolf, Christian C. P. Wolff, Leonard Wolk, Wing-Keung Wong, Jan Wrampelmeyer, Shuo Xia, Dacheng Xiu, Ke Xu, Caihong Xu, Pradeep K. Yadav, José Yagüe, Cheng Yan, Antti Yang, Woongsun Yoo, Wenjia Yu, Shihao Yu, Bart Zhou Yueshen, Darya Yuferova, Marcin Zamojski, Abalfazl Zareei, Stefan Zeisberger, S. Sarah Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhuo Zhong, Z. Ivy Zhou, Chen Zhou, Xingyu Sonya Zhu, Marius Zoican, Remco C. J. Zwinkels, Jian Chen, Teodor Duevski, Ge Gao, Roland Gemayel, Dudley Gilder, Paul Kuhle, Emiliano Pagnotta, Michele Pelli, Jantje Sönksen, Lu Zhang, Konrad Ilczuk, Dimitar Bogoev, Ya Qian, Hans C. Wika, Yihe Yu, Lu Zhao, Michael Mi, Li Bao, Andreea Vaduva, Marcel Prokopczuk, Alejandro Avetikian and Zhen-Xing Wu
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck - Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck, Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, VU University Amsterdam, Universidad de Alicante, Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration, International Monetary Fund, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), CNRS, University of Oxford, University of Technology Sydney, Dublin City University, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Wilfrid Laurier University, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, University of Mannheim, Tennessee Technological University, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Emlyon Business School, University of St. Gallen, Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, University of Innsbruck, BI Norwegian Business School, University of Memphis, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Universidad EAFIT, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance, VU University Amsterdam, Technische Universität Berlin, Lebanese American University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Toulouse Business School - TBS Education, Monash University, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), VU University Amsterdam - Department of Finance and Financial Sector Management, University of Padua - Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Amsterdam Business School, Saint Louis University - Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, UCLA Anderson, Waseda University, University of San Francisco, Emory University - Department of Finance, Australian National University (ANU), Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, HEC Paris - Finance Department, University of Melbourne - Department of Finance, Macquarie University - Faculty of Business and Economics, Nottingham Trent University, University of Liège - HEC Liège, Babson College - Finance Division, Polytechnic University of Marche - Department of Management, University of Zurich - Department of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, Masaryk University, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Nottingham Trent University - Nottingham Business School, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Louvain Finance (LFIN), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), George Washington University, University of Hohenheim, Queen's University (Canada), Queen's School of Business, The Brattle Group, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dresden University of Technology, ESADE Business School, EDHEC Business School, The University of Sydney - Discipline of Finance, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Salisbury University - Perdue School of Business, Cardiff Business School, VU University Amsterdam, University of Queensland - Business School, Georgetown University - Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Finance, University of Technology Sydney, Bank of England, Ibn Tofail University, Politecnico di Milano, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Macquarie University, UNSW Business School, HEC Paris - Finance Department, City University London - Bayes Business School, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI Lugano), Open University of the Netherlands - School of Management, Ghent University - Department of Financial Economics, University of Essex - Essex Business School, Radboud University Nijmegen - Institute for Management Research, Ardea Investment Management, University of Vienna, Utrecht University - School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Columbia University, Utrecht University, Monash University - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Glasgow - Adam Smith Business School, University of Tübingen, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance, Stockholm University - Stockholm Business School, University of Liège - HEC Liège, Aalto University, American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Aix-Marseille University - Aix-Marseille School of Economics, University of Vienna - Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, University of Zurich - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, West Virginia University - John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Department of Finance, University of Gothenburg - Centre for Finance, Missouri State University - College of Business, European Central Bank (ECB), Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance, University of Miami - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics, Bank for International Settlements, University of Utah - Department of Finance, University of Orleans, VU University Amsterdam, University of New Mexico, Cardiff University, Saint Joseph University, Columbia University, Bank of England, Aalto University, University of Sussex, Universite du Luxembourg, Durham University, VU University Amsterdam, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Aalto University, University of Birmingham - Department of Economics, Queen's University Belfast - Queen's Management School, Universidad de los Andes, HEC Montreal, University of Adelaide, Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT) - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, University of Kiel - Institute for Quantitative Business and Economics Research (QBER), Halle Institute for Economic Research, SAFE Leibniz Institute for Financial Research, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Square Research Center, Independent Researcher, University of Liège - HEC Liège, HEC Paris - Finance Department, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Leibniz University Hannover, University of Zurich, Universite du Luxembourg, S&P Global Ratings, La Trobe University, UCSI University, Malaysia, Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Cambridge, Purdue University, The University of Sydney, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Aalto University, Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area, University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, North Carolina State University - Department of Business Management, Swiss Finance Institute - USI Lugano, EPFL, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and UTSC Management, ESCP Europe - ESCP Europe - Turin Campus, Toulouse Business School - TBS Education, Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, Independent, Universite de Toulouse 1 Capitole, Loyola Marymount University, Queen's University Belfast, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago, John von Neumann University - MNB Institute, Macquarie University, Copenhagen Business School, University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, Radboud University, Stockholm University - Stockholm Business School, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Banking and Finance, Mississippi State University, University of Stavanger, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, Saint Louis University - Department of Finance, University of Graz - Institute of Banking and Finance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University) - Blockchain Innovation Hub, University of Toronto, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Duke University - Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Duisburg-Essen - Mercator School of Management, HEC Paris - Finance Department, University of Oregon - Department of Finance, University of Sydney Business School, Masaryk University - Department of finance, Missouri State University, Copenhagen Business School, The University of Wollongong, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, University of Texas at Arlington - Department of Finance and Real Estate, University of Basel - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Turin, University of Kiel, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), VU University Amsterdam, ESSEC Business School, University of Toronto, Universite du Luxembourg - Department of Finance, Aalto University, Queen's University - Smith School of Business, University of Innsbruck, Stockholm University - Stockholm Business School, State University of New York at Buffalo - School of Management, University of Edinburgh Business School, Oklahoma State University, HEC Paris - Finance Department, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) - Faculty of Management (ESG), University of Lausanne, Bowling Green State University - Department of Finance, University of Edinburgh, York University - Schulich School of Business, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance, New Mexico State University, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Swiss Finance Institute - University of Geneva, University of Mannheim, The University of Manchester - Department of Economics, University of Graz, Deutsche Bundesbank, Macquarie University, Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, University of Stuttgart, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Arizona State University (ASU), VU Amsterdam - School of Business and Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Wilfrid Laurier University - Finance, Federal Housing Finance Agency, University of Zurich, Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Western Australia, University of St. Gallen, University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Cardiff University, Universite du Luxembourg, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Aalto University, Eötvös Loránd University, University of Birmingham, University of Florida - Department of Finance, University of Bristol Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Mannheim - Finance Area, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Bristol - Department of Finance and Accounting, Loyola Marymount University - Department of Finance, University of Bologna, Copenhagen Business School, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR), University of Mississippi - Department of Finance, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Department of Business Administration, Vlerick Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Lund University - Department of Economics, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Amsterdam Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), University of Copenhagen, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Utrecht University - School of Economics, Reykjavik University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, University of Sydney Business School, University of Vienna - Department of Finance, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, University of Zurich - Department of Economics, University of Luxembourg, VU University Amsterdam, Asia University, Department of Finance, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Halle Institute for Economic Research, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Victoria, Stockholm University - Stockholm Business School, University of Oklahoma Price College of Business, University of Murcia, University of Essex, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Central Michigan University, Aalto University, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business, NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Finance, University of Gothenburg, Centre for Finance, Stockholm University, Radboud University, Institute for Management Research, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), University of Melbourne - Department of Finance, University of Wollongong - School of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Monetary and Economic Department, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Queen's University, HEC Paris, University of Birmingham, King’s College London, Cardiff Business School, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Singapore Management University, University of Zurich - Department of Finance, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, University of Luxembourg, affiliation not provided to SSRN, EDF Energy, United Kingdom, Aalto University, Norges Bank, State University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), NGS Super, University of Toulouse Capitole, UC3M, University of Reading - ICMA Centre, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law - School of Finance
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nonstandard errors, multi-analyst study, liquidity

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Gold and Geopolitical Risk

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Feb 2018
Dirk G. Baur and Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia - Business School and University of Western Australia
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Gold; safe haven; geopolitical risks; VIX; precious metals; Bitcoin

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Cryptocurrency as an Alternative Inflation Hedge?

Accounting & Finance
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2023
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Cryptocurrency, Gold, Inflation expectations, Bitcoin, Breakeven inflation rate

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The Importance of Fear: Investor Sentiment and Stock Market Returns

Applied Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Investor sentiment, Financial markets, VIX, Stock markets

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Time-Varying Relationship of News Sentiment, Implied Volatility and Stock Returns

Applied Economics, Forthcoming, Asian Finance Association (AsFA) 2013 Conference
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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VIX, VAR, News Sentiment, S&P500, Equity

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The Effect of Treasury Auctions on 10-Year Treasury Note Futures

Accounting & Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Treasury Auctions, Futures Markets, Trading, Volatility, 10-Year Note

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Spreading the Fear: The Central Role of CBOE VIX in Global Stock Market Uncertainty

Global Finance Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2021
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Market uncertainty, Investor fear, Implied volatility, VIX, Linkages, COVID

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Investor Attention and Global Market Returns during the COVID-19 Crisis

International Review of Financial Analysis, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Investor Attention, Stock Market Returns, Google Search Volume, COVID-19, Coronavirus

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'Brexit': A Case Study in the Relationship between Political and Financial Market Uncertainty

International Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Political uncertainty, Investor sentiment, Implied volatility, Stock markets, Brexit

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Risk-On/Risk-Off: Financial Market Response to Investor Fear

Finance Research Letters, Vol. 17, 2016
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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VIX, Investor Fear, Financial Markets, Financial Crisis

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Bitcoin as a Safe Haven: Is It Even Worth Considering?

Finance Research Letters, Vol. 30, 2019
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Bitcoin, Safe Haven, Gold, Cryptofinance, Cryptocurrency

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News Sentiment in the Gold Futures Market

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2014, 49, 275-286
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2014
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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News sentiment, Gold futures, Trading Behaviour, Market positioning

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Investor Attention in Cryptocurrency Markets

International Review of Financial Analysis, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2021
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Cryptocurrency, Investor attention, Uncertainty, Bitcoin, Google Search Volume

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Geopolitical Risk and Volatility Spillovers in Oil and Stock Markets

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 80, 2021
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2021
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Volatility, Geopolitical risk, Crude Oil, Stock Market, Spillover, GARCH

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Investor Attention and the Response of US Stock Sectors to the COVID-19 Crisis

Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 20-39
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Investor Attention, Stock Market Returns, Google Search Volume, COVID-19, Coronavirus

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Non-Scheduled News Arrival and High-Frequency Stock Market Dynamics: Evidence from the Australian Securities Exchange

Research International Business and Finance, Forthcoming, 25th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2012
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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News Analytics, Australia, Non-scheduled news, Stock market

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News Sentiment and Measures of Bank Credit Risk

Journal of Empirical Finance, Forthcoming, 27th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2014 Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 May 2014 Last Revised: 05 May 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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News Sentiment, LIBOR, CDS, Credit Risk, TRNA

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Do Item Writing Best Practices Improve Multiple Choice Questions for University Students?

Journal of Financial Education, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2019
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 May 2018 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control, University of Western Australia, CFA Institute and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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Assessment, business education, test validity, multiple-choice questions, best practices

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Digging Deeper - Is Bitcoin Digital Gold? A Mining Perspective

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2023
University of Western Australia - Business School, The University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia and The University of Western Australia
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Bitcoin, gold, mining, decentralized mining, centralized mining, proof of work, proof of stake

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Commodity Futures Trading at the 52-Week High and Low

Journal of Behavioral Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2024
Joshua Laubsch, Lee A. Smales and Duc Vo
The University of Western Australia - UWA Business School, University of Western Australia and Business School, University of Western Australia
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Futures markets, Trading Behaviour, CFTC Commitment of Traders, Commodity markets

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Are Stablecoins the Money Market Mutual Funds of the Future?

Journal of Empirical Finance, volume 79, 2024[10.1016/j.jempfin.2024.101557]
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2024
Nico Oefele, Dirk G. Baur and Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia - Business School, University of Western Australia - Business School and University of Western Australia
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stablecoins, money market mutual funds, financial intermediation, peg deviations, sponsor support

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One Cryptocurrency to Explain Them All? Understanding the Importance of Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency Returns

Economic Papers, Vol.39, No. 2, 118-132
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Principal Component Analysis, Time-Varying

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Impact of Macroeconomic Announcements on Interest Rate Futures: High-Frequency Evidence from Australia

Journal of Financial Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2013
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Interest Rates, Futures Markets, Australia, High-Frequency, GFC, Trading Activity

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A Game Theory Model of Regulatory Response to Insider Trading

Applied Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2016
Lee A. Smales and Matthias Thul
University of Western Australia and University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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Regulators, SEC, Insider trading, Game theory, numerical solution, Financial markets

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Decoding DAI: Exploring Collateral Evolution and Price Dynamics

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Jul 2024
University of Western Australia - Business School, University of Western Australia - Business School, University of Western Australia and Warwick Business School
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stablecoin, collateral, decentralization, real-world asset, arbitrage JEL codes: G14, G15, G23

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30-Day Interbank Futures: Investigating the Process of Price Discovery Following RBA Cash Target Rate Announcements

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Forthcoming, 24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2011 Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Monetary Policy, RBA, Interbank futures, Macroeconomic Events, Futures

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Bond Futures and Order Imbalance: An International Comparison

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2013
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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bond futures, order imbalance, trading volume, dynamic relationship, VAR

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Order Imbalance, Market Returns and Macroeconomic News: Evidence from the Australian Interest Rate Futures Market

Research in International Business and Finance, 2012, Vol. 26, Issue 3, P410-427, 2012 Financial Markets & Corporate Governance Conference
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2013
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Australia, Futures Markets, Macroeconomic News Announcements, Order Imbalance, Interest Rate Futures

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Macroeconomic News and Treasury Futures Return Volatility: Do Treasury Auctions Matter?

Global Finance Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 147 (421,607)
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Macroeconomic News, Treasury Auctions, Futures Markets, Volatility, Market Efficiency

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Transitory Fear: Explaining Changes in the VIX Futures Basis

Journal of Investing, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2020
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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VIX, Investor Fear, Futures, News Sentiment

31.

Flight to Quality - Money Market Mutual Funds and Stablecoins During the March 2023 Banking Crisis

Economics Letters, Volume 234, January 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111464
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2023
Nico Oefele, Dirk G. Baur and Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia - Business School, University of Western Australia - Business School and University of Western Australia
Downloads 138 (443,481)
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Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, flight-to-quality, money market mutual fund, stablecoin

32.

Trading Behaviour and Monetary Policy News

Journal of Behavioral Finance, Forthcoming, 28th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2017
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 135 (451,281)

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Trading behaviour, Stock market, Institutional brokers, Retail brokers, Monetary policy, RBA

33.

How Does Investor Sentiment Shape the Liquidity Response to Monetary Policy Announcements in Precious Metal Markets?

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Vol. 60, 2019
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales and Brian M. Lucey
University of Western Australia and Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
Downloads 132 (459,600)

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Monetary Policy Decisions, Liquidity, Investor Sentiment, Gold, Silver

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Does More Complex Language in FOMC Decisions Impact Financial Markets?

Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2016 Conference, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Vol. 51, 2017
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales and Nicholas Apergis
University of Western Australia and University of Piraeus
Downloads 131 (462,416)
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Monetary policy decisions, Financial markets, Federal Reserve, Linguistic complexity, FOMC statements

35.

FX Market Returns and Their Relationship to Investor Fear

International Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2016
Lee A. Smales and Jardee Kininmonth
University of Western Australia and Curtin University
Downloads 128 (473,840)
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VIX, FX market, Carry trade, GFC

36.

How Does Policy Uncertainty Influence Financial Market Uncertainty Across the G7?

International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 71, 2020
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 121 (492,053)
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economic policy uncertainty, financial market uncertainty, implied volatility, EPU, VIX

37.

The effect of currency risk on crypto asset utilization in Türkiye

Emerging Markets Review, volume 65, 2025[10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101264]
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2025
Nico Oefele, Dirk G. Baur and Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia - Business School, University of Western Australia - Business School and University of Western Australia
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cryptoization, emerging market, stablecoin, currency substitution, dollarization, crypto asset, financial stability

38.

RBA Monetary Policy Communication: The Response of Australian Interest Rate Futures to Changes in RBA Monetary Policy

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2012
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 119 (498,374)
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Monetary Policy, RBA, Futures Markets, Interest Rate Futures

39.

The Relevance of Dark Trading for Information Acquisition in German Stocks

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Nov 2022
Deelaka Ekanayake, Lee A. Smales and Yuanji Wen
The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Western Australia and The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance
Downloads 117 (504,809)

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Dark pools, information acquisition, informed trading, price informativeness, earnings announcement

40.

Classification of RBA Monetary Policy Announcements Using ChatGPT

Finance Research Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2023
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 115 (511,448)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, Monetary Policy Communication, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)

41.

The Influence of Policy Uncertainty on Exchange Rate Forecasting

Journal of Forecasting; https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2847
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2023
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Economic Policy Uncertainty, EPU, Analyst Forecasts, Foreign Exchange Market

42.

Commodity Market Volatility in the Presence of U.S. and Chinese Macroeconomic News

Journal of Commodity Markets, Vol. 7, 2017
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 102 (558,991)

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Commodity Markets, Macroeconomic Announcements, Volatility, China, GSCI, CRB

43.

Trading Behaviour in Closely Related Markets for S&P 500 Index Futures

Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Investor behaviour, index futures, S&P 500

44.

Short Interest and the Stock Market Relation with News Sentiment from Traditional and Social Media Sources

Australian Economic Papers, Volume 62, Issue 2, Pages 321-334
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2024
University of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance and The University of Western Australia
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Short Interest, Sentiment, News Analytics, Twitter, stock markets

45.

Slopes, Spreads, and Depth: Monetary Policy Announcements and Liquidity Provision in the Energy Futures Market

International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 59, 2019
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
Downloads 97 (578,343)
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Energy markets, Crude oil futures, WTI, Monetary policy decisions, Liquidity

46.

Oil prices and Clean Energy Stock Prices Revisited

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2020
Dirk G. Baur and Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia - Business School and University of Western Australia
Downloads 90 (606,249)
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renewable energy, oil prices, correlations, spillovers, replication

47.

Stock Market Liquidity During Crisis Periods: Australian Evidence

Accounting & Finance
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2023
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Liquidity, Financial Crisis, GFC, COVID, Short Interest, Australian Stock Market

48.

U.S. Presidential News Coverage: Risk, Uncertainty and Equities

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Jun 2024
Kam Fong Chan and Lee A. Smales
The University of Western Australia and University of Western Australia
Downloads 78 (660,038)

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Presidential election, Political uncertainty, News sentiment, Cross-section of stock returns, Textual analysis G10, D80, G18, G40

49.

Technical Talk in Bitcoin and Equity

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Feb 2024
Daniel Cahill, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu and Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia, Buiness School, The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance and University of Western Australia
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Textual analysis,cryptocurrency,equity markets,social media,Reddit.com

50.

Better the Devil You Know: The Influence of Political Incumbency on Australian Financial Market Uncertainty

Research in International Business and Finance, 2015, Vol. 33, Page. 59-74
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2015
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Political uncertainty, Financial market uncertainty, Implied volatility, Exchange traded options, Stock markets, Australian federal election

51.

Lost in Translation: When Sentiment Metrics for One Market are Derived from Two Different Languages

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2024
Lee A. Smales, Robert B. B. Durand and Joyce Khuu
University of Western Australia, Curtin University of Technology - School of Economics and Finance - Department of Finance and Banking and Curtin University - School of Economics and Finance
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Behavioral Finance, Sentiment, News analytics, TOPIX

52.

Policy Uncertainty in Australian Financial Markets

Australian Journal of Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Economic Policy Uncertainty, Australian Financial Markets, Stock Markets, Bond Yields, Political uncertainty

53.

The Influence of FOMC Member Characteristics on the Monetary Policy Decision-Making Process

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2016
Nick Apergi and Lee A. Smales
Curtin University and University of Western Australia
Downloads 67 (717,075)
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Monetary policy committees, characteristics of committee members, monetary policy rules, FOMC, Federal funds

54.

Order Aggressiveness of Different Broker-Types in Response to Monetary Policy News

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2016
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Order aggressiveness, Limit order book, Institutional brokers, Retail brokers, Monetary policy news, Reserve Bank of Australia

55.

One Session Options: Playing the Announcement Lottery?

Journal of Futures Markets, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2021
University of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Lottery-like assets, One Session Options, Trading Volume, Trading Behaviour

56.

A Note on the Relationship between Financial Asset Returns and Well-Being

Applied Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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well-being, asset returns, SP500, asymmetric response, Well-Being Index

57.

What do investors need to know about SEC news?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Feb 2025
Xiaorui Zhang, Lee A. Smales and Kam Fong Chan
The University of Western Australia - UWA Business School, University of Western Australia and The University of Western Australia
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Other Papers (3)

Total Downloads: 65
1.

How Does Investor Sentiment Shape the Liquidity Response to Monetary Policy Announcements in Precious Metal Markets?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Aug 2017
Lee A. Smales and Brian M. Lucey
University of Western Australia and Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
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Monetary policy decisions, Liquidity, Investor Sentiment, Gold, Silver

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Investor Sentiment and Japanese Stock Returns

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Jan 2017
Joyce Khuu, Robert B. B. Durand and Lee A. Smales
Curtin University - School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University of Technology - School of Economics and Finance - Department of Finance and Banking and University of Western Australia
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Sentiment, Fama-French model, Japan

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Order Aggressiveness of Different Broker-Types in Response to Monetary Policy News

2015 Financial Markets & Corporate Governance Conference
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2015
Lee A. Smales
University of Western Australia
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Order aggressiveness, Limit order book, Institutional brokers, Retail brokers, Monetary policy news, Reserve Bank of Australia