The novelty/value added of this paper is the comparison of the Epps effect between developed and emerging stock markets from Central Europe by means of the correction formula derived by the authors. The main goal of the study is to test whether or not asynchrony in transaction times is a...

This paper analyzes short-run relationships between German, Austrian and Polish stock market indices using the Markov Switching VAR (MSVAR) model. The impulse response function is used as the main tool and reveals two market phases. The results are useful for investors; reactions to disturbances...

In this paper, the analysis of the dependence structure among the selected European indices (FTSE, CAC, DAX, ATX, PX, BUX and BIST) is conducted. The main features of the financial data are studied: the asymmetry, the fat-tailedness, the variability and mutual dependence. We have fitted a regime...

The main goal of the work is to present the empirical verification of the investment attractiveness in a given world financial region. The attractiveness of a region is represented by the share of assets from this region in the optimal portfolio. The multivariate GARCH model has been used to...

The structure of links between realized volatility and trading volume can be reflected by regime switching copulas. The estimation by means of copula based regime switching models delivered results concerning the interdependencies between realized return volatility and trading volume of selected...

Value at Risk plays a crucial role in the risk management. However, this risk measure has some drawbacks. The alternative risk measure is Expected Shortfall, which is rarely used, but exhibits desirable properties. In the paper, the estimation of both risk measures has been conducted, for pairs...