Financial Assets as Profit-Makers in Inflationary Periods, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Financial markets have become increasingly unpredictable since the onset of the large inflationary pressures in 2021, and also since the significant repercussions of price-level uncertainty on the investing capacity of economic agents. This has drawn opprobrium among a large spectrum of economic viewpoints concerning whether traditional financial assets (precious metals, bonds, stocks, and currencies) or modern financial assets (ETFs, large-cap cryptocurrencies, green cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens, and NFTs) could act as profit-makers during inflationary periods and as hedgers against losses and wealth reduction. The great loss of purchasing power has intensified risk-seeking and has proved to be influential for investor appetite. Moreover, high levels of inflation have rendered tighter monetary policies a prerequisite for returning to normality. Therefore, more expensive liquidity has suppressed aggregate demand and investment projects and has strengthened trading activity in stock and cryptocurrency exchanges in unequal proportions.

This Special Issue aims to cover changes in investment decision-making caused by major inflationary periods—such as the one we are currently in the midst of—and cast light on the unknown aspects of portfolio management, such as when expected returns have to overcome abrupt decreases in monetary values generated by rapidly increasing price levels. I am pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, and I look forward to receiving theoretical or empirical research related to conventional or modern financial tools and their nexus with intense inflationary phenomena. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Asset portfolio management in inflationary periods;
• Linkages between inflation and financial assets;
• The impacts of monetary policy interventions on wealth maximizing;
• Fiscal and monetary coordination through the prism of evolution in financial markets.

This is the second volume of the Special Issue, ‘Financial Assets as Profit-Makers in Inflationary Periods’. The first volume has already been published, and we now invite further contributions to continue and expand this important conversation.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Nikolaos A. Kyriazis
Guest Editor

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• inflation
• financial assets
• investment strategies