Publications Database

Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!

The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:

  • Faculty Member’s Name;
  • Area of Expertise;
  • Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
  • Journal Name; and
  • Date Range.

At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.

If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

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Perry Sadorsky (2025). "Does the Yield Curve Affect the Systemic Risk Between the Stocks of FinTech and Traditional Finance Companies?", Finance Research Open, 1(4), 100073.

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Abstract This study explores the effect of yield curve components (level, slope, and curvature) on the return connectedness (systemic risk) between US FinTech stocks and traditional US financial stocks. Quantile connectedness analysis reveals that total connectedness fluctuates over time, particularly reaching high levels during the COVID-19 lockdowns and the 2023 US bank panic, underscoring the substantial impact of global health crises and bank panics. Connectedness tends to be higher but less variable under extreme market conditions than during normal times. The level and slope components of the yield curve negatively and significantly affect total connectedness in both normal and extreme conditions. This suggests that favorable economic conditions reduce systemic risk; however, the strength of these effects varies depending on market conditions. Their impact is most substantial in normal market conditions, with a one-standard deviation rise in the level (slope) reducing systemic risk by 0.77 % (1.22 %). Conversely, a one-standard deviation increase in economic policy uncertainty most notably raises total connectedness by 2.01 % in normal markets. In contrast, a similar increase in five-year expected inflation decreases total connectedness the most, by 2.46 % in normal markets.

Irene Henriques, Perry Sadorsky (2024). "Do Clean Energy Stocks Diversify the Risk of FinTech Stocks? Connectedness and Portfolio Implications", Global Finance Journal, 62, 101019.

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Abstract The FinTech sector is growing rapidly, prompting a need to explore effective investment diversification strategies for stocks in this sector. The existing literature has identified the benefits of using clean energy stocks to diversify stock portfolios and the purpose of this research is to estimate how useful clean energy stocks are for diversifying an investment in FinTech stocks. This study uses a QVAR model to estimate the dynamic return connectedness between FinTech stocks and clean energy stocks for the period September 2016 to April 2024. Total connectedness is time varying and is higher in the tails than at the median. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had a large but short-term impact on connectedness. Under normal market conditions, systemic risk increases by 3.5% per year. FinTech is a net transmitter of shocks to nuclear energy but is mostly unaffected by shocks from wind, solar, and nuclear energy stocks illustrating the diversification benefits of these sub-sectors. Portfolio analysis shows that adding solar, wind, and nuclear energy to a portfolio with FinTech can produce higher risk adjusted returns and lower drawdown than an investment solely in FinTech stocks. These results are robust across various portfolio rebalancing frequencies (daily, weekly, monthly). For example, a minimum connectedness portfolio rebalanced daily has an average annual return of 11% and a Sharpe ratio of 0.37. These values are higher than their respective values for an investment solely in FinTech stocks (5.4%, 0.11). Thus, clean energy stocks do provide diversification benefits for investments in FinTech stocks.