“…The research contained in Cluster 2 has been aimed at extending the understanding of risk contagion among different asset classes, such as volatility spillovers across various financial assets, and herding behaviour in financial markets (Economou, Gavriilidis, Kallinterakis, & Yordanov, 2015;Economou, Katsikas, & Vickers, 2016). Among different types of financial assets, energy market, commodity market, and most recently, cryptocurrency market have attracted much attention and become the most popular research topics (Corbet et al, 2018(Corbet et al, , 2019Guo, Lu, & Wei, 2021;Ji, Bouri, Lau, & Roubaud, 2019;Ji, Bouri, Roubaud, & Kristoufek, 2019;Shah, Paul, Bhanja, & Dar, 2021), with the corresponding keywords being "oil", "gold", "commodity", "Bitcoin", and "cryptocurrency".…”