Mehdi Seraj

Volatility Connectedness and Portfolio Optimization Across Islamic Finance, Sustainable, and Technological Innovation Markets: Evidence From Multiple Global Turbulences

ABSTRACT This study investigates volatility spillovers and minimum‐variance portfolio allocation among Islamic finance, sustainable, and technological innovation markets across four major global turbulences (COVID‐19 pandemic, Russia–Ukraine conflict, 2023 banking crisis, and 202...

Financial Inclusion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Distributional Panel Analysis

ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) faces pressing financing and structural transitions to achieve the 2030 Agenda, yet the distributional relationships linking financial inclusion and renewable energy adoption to sustainable development goal (SDG) achievement remain underexplored....

Cross-domain volatility connectedness and portfolio optimization among DeFi, ESG, biodiversity, and new economy markets: evidence from multiple global crises

The growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) and sustainability-linked investment markets has been rapid. This, alongside an unprecedented succession of global crises, has created an urgent need to comprehend the propagation of risk across financial markets and its portfolio implic...