• openAccess   A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Growth and Profit Rate Distribution: The Spanish Case 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Alfarano, Simone MDPI (2022-03-14)
      We analyse the time evolution of the empirical cross-sectional distribution of firms’ profit and growth rates. In particular, we analyse the conditional properties of the empirical distributions depending on the size of ...
    • openAccess   An agent-based early warning indicator for financial market instability 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Alfarano, Simone Springer (2019-11-21)
      Inspired by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch global breath rule, we propose an investor sentiment index based on the collective movement of stock prices in a given market. We show that the time evolution of the sentiment ...
    • closedAccess   Anatomy of a Stablecoin’s failure: The Terra-Luna case 

      Briola, Antonio; Vidal-Tomás, David; Wang, Yuanrong Elsevier (2023)
      We quantitatively describe the main events that led to the Terra project’s failure in May 2022. We first review, in a systematic way, news from heterogeneous social media sources; we discuss the fragility of the Terra ...
    • closedAccess   Blockchain, sport and fan tokens 

      Vidal-Tomás, David Emerald (2023-04-28)
      Purpose This paper provides a thorough examination of Socios.com, a blockchain platform that integrates token sales with the fan experience in the sports industry. The study focuses on three key aspects: the performance, ...
    • openAccess   Empresas granulares y desagregación regional: un análisis del caso español 

      Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Vidal-Tomás, David; Alfarano, Simone Universidad de Almería (2019)
      Following the approach proposed by Gabaix (2011), this paper aims to assess the existence of granularity in the business cycle fluctuations of the following Spanish regions: the Community of Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque ...
    • openAccess   FTX’s downfall and Binance’s consolidation: The fragility of centralised digital finance 

      Vidal Tomás, David; Briola, Antonio; Aste, Tomaso Elsevier ScienceDirect (2023-07-16)
      This paper investigates the causes and the consequences of the FTX digital currency exchange’s failure in November 2022. Analysing on-chain data, we report that FTX heavily relied on leveraging and misusing its native ...
    • closedAccess   Herding in the cryptocurrency market: CSSD and CSAD approaches 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Ibáñez Escribano, Ana María; Farinós, José Emilio Elsevier (2018-09-22)
      We analyse the existence of herding in the cryptocurrency market through the cross-sectional standard (absolute) deviation of returns. Our results show that extreme dispersion of returns is explained by rational asset ...
    • openAccess   On the determination of the granular size of the economy 

      Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Vidal-Tomás, David; Alfarano, Simone Elsevier (2018-12)
      Introducing the granular hypothesis, Gabaix (2011) shows that the idiosyncratic shocks of a few “granular” firms account for a significant fraction of aggregate fluctuations of the US business cycle. In ...
    • closedAccess   Semi-strong efficiency of Bitcoin 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Ibáñez Escribano, Ana María Elsevier (2018-12)
      This research examines the semi-strong efficiency of Bitcoin in the Bitstamp and Mt.Gox markets, showing how the digital currency responds to monetary policy and Bitcoin events. On the one hand, we observe that Bitcoin has ...
    • closedAccess   The day after tomorrow: financial repercussions of COVID-19 on systemic risk 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Caferra, Rocco; Tedeschi, Gabriele Springer (2022)
      In this paper, we study the financial repercussions of COVID-19 and the effect of anti-epidemic measures on financial markets. By using a composite dataset con- taining stock market indices of 10 countries characterized ...
    • closedAccess   The desertion of rich countries and the mutual support of the poor ones: preferential lending agreements among the PIGS 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Tedeschi, Gabriele; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2019-08-09)
      By using the BIS data, we analyze the evolution of credit relationships among banks of the Euro-zone during the pre-crisis period (2006Q1–2007Q4), the global financial crisis (2008Q1–2010Q4) and the debt sovereign crisis ...
    • openAccess   The Effect of the Launch of Bitcoin Futures on the Cryptocurrency Market: An Economic Efficiency Approach 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Ibañez, Ana M; Farinós, José Emilio Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (2021-02-02)
      We analyze the economic efficiency of the cryptocurrency market after the launch of Bitcoin futures by means of the Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Indexes. Our results show that the introduction of Bitcoin futures ...
    • closedAccess   The entry and exit dynamics of the cryptocurrency market 

      Vidal-Tomás, David Elsevier (2021-08-05)
      This paper presents an analysis of the entry and exit dynamics of the cryptocurrency market that focuses on the growth of initial coin offerings during 2015–2020. We used two different datasets: one includes long-lived ...
    • openAccess   The illusion of the metaverse and meta-economy 

      Vidal-Tomás, David Elsevier (2023-02-07)
      This paper provides (i) a review of the existing literature on the metaverse and (ii) an empirical assessment of the current state of the Web3 meta-economy, with the focus on economic governance and metaverse commerce. We ...
    • closedAccess   The macroeconomic effects of default and debt restructuring: An agent based exploration 

      Tedeschi, Gabriele; Vidal-Tomás, David; Delli Gatti, Domenico; GALLEGATI, MARCO Elsevier (2021-08-20)
      In this paper we investigate the economic impact of bank reactions to firm financial delinquency. In case of firm liquidity shortage, indeed, the bank commonly proposes two different solutions of debt restructuring to help ...
    • openAccess   The new crypto niche: NFTs, play-to-earn, and metaverse tokens 

      Vidal-Tomás, David (2022)
      The combination of blockchain technologies and the gaming industry has given rise to metaverses and play-to-earn games, which incorporate their own economy, commerce, and cur- rencies, namely, metaverse and play-to-earn ...
    • openAccess   Transitions in the cryptocurrency market during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis 

      Vidal-Tomás, David Elsevier (2021-02-17)
      In this letter, we identify the transitions of the cryptocurrency market during the pandemic by means of a network analysis. This method allows us to observe that COVID-19 significantly affected cryptocurrencies during a ...
    • closedAccess   Which cryptocurrency data sources should scholars use? 

      Vidal-Tomás, David Elsevier (2022-02-16)
      Inspired by Alexander and Dakos (2020), we shed more light on the adequacy of data in the cryptocurrency literature by analysing the scaling properties and underlying processes of the main cryptocurrency databases ...
    • closedAccess   Who raised from the abyss? A comparison between cryptocurrency and stock market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Caferra, Rocco; Vidal-Tomás, David Elsevier (2021-02-01)
      This research examines the behaviour of cryptocurrencies and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic through the wavelet coherence approach and Markov switching autoregressive model. Our results show a financial contagion ...