This article examines the development of energy commodity prices since the beginning of the conflict in the Middle East in spring 2026, which led to substantial disruptions in international energy markets. In particular, crude oil and natural gas prices, as well as the HWWI Energy Price Index, increased markedly in…

We are the first to analyze the effect of terror on stock markets by terror ideology. Surprisingly, we find that Islamist terror attacks created significant negative abnormal returns in American and European markets, but the stock market effects of other terror attacks were almost nil. For our sample of all…

This study examines the real estate market in Germany at the district level, focusing on all NUTS 3 regions from 2012 to 2022. Using spatial econometric models, the analysis explores the association of socio-economic variables and COVID-19-related indicators—including infection rates and mobility restrictions—with regional property prices. Our results indicate that…