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.
Search Results
Irene Henriques and Perry Sadorsky (2025). "Connectedness And Systemic Risk Between Fintech And Traditional Financial Stocks: Implications For Portfolio Diversification", Research in International Business and Finance, 73, Part A,102629.
Abstract
The rapid growth in FinTech is attracting significant investor attention. There are concerns that FinTech stocks may be a source of systemic risk and this has implications for the stability of the financial sector. This study uses a TVP-VAR model to estimate the dynamic connectedness between global FinTech stocks and the stocks of large US banks, regional US banks, US insurance, and global private equity. The findings reveal that FinTech and insurance stocks are net receivers of shocks while large US banks are a major source of shocks. Thus, FinTech stocks are not a source of systemic risk but can be affected by financial contagion and systemic risk originating from large US banks. The highest connectedness was observed at the onset of the COVID-19 lockdowns illustrating the dramatic impact that a health pandemic can have on systemic risk. Systemic risk also increased during the 2023 US bank panic. Connectedness has implications for constructing investment portfolios. The equally weighted, risk parity, and risk parity connectedness portfolios have similar portfolio summary statistics, but lower risk adjusted returns than the maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio which better captures the low correlation between FinTech stocks and traditional financial stocks. These results are robust across various portfolio rebalancing periods (daily, weekly, monthly).Syed Abul Basher and Perry Sadorsky (2024). "Do Climate Change Risks Affect The Systemic Risk Between The Stocks Of Clean Energy, Electric Vehicles, And Critical Minerals? Analysis Under Changing Market Conditions", Energy Economics, 138, 107832.
Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of climate change risks—specifically from natural disasters, global warming, international summits, and U.S. climate policy—on the return connectedness (systemic risk) of a network consisting of the stocks of clean energy, electric vehicles, and critical minerals in bear, bull, and normal market conditions. Employing a quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) approach, we find significant temporal variations in the total connectedness index, with notable spikes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. Total connectedness is higher but less variable under bear and bull market conditions. Concerns about global warming has a positive and significant impact on systemic risk during bear and normal market conditions while international summits have a negative impact during normal market conditions. However, the effects of these climate change risks are small in magnitude. Economic policy uncertainty and stock market volatility have the largest positive impacts on systemic risk under most market conditions. Our results reveal a nonlinear (inverted U-shaped) relationship between variable importance and systemic risk quantile, showing that the impact on connectedness is largest in magnitude under normal market conditions.Irene Henriques, Perry Sadorsky (2024). "Do Clean Energy Stocks Diversify the Risk of FinTech Stocks? Connectedness and Portfolio Implications", Global Finance Journal, 62, 101019.