prices caused by stochastic volatility. -- option pricing ; autoregression ; heteroskedasticity ; GARCH ; leverage effect …

The aim of this paper is twofold: to investigate how the information content of implied volatility varies according to … moneyness and option type and to compare option-based forecasts with historical volatility. The different information content of … implied volatility is examined for the most liquid at-the-money and out-of-the-money options: put (call) options for strikes …

to cointegration. -- implied volatility surface ; dynamic semiparametric factor model ; VAR ; cointegration …As a function of strike and time to maturity the implied volatility estimation is a challenging task in financial … volatility surface (IVS) in a dynamic context, employing semiparametric factor functions and time-varying loadings. Because …

-variate GARCH-in-mean model and volatility spillovers. The empirical results show the significant effects (positive and negative …, respectively) of the stock market returns, interest rate, and exchange rate volatility of the financial sector during the crisis …. Besides, we find, in most cases, significant (positive and negative, respectively) volatility spillovers from market return …

We find a robust negative effect of exchange rate volatility on S&P500 company returns. The Consumer Discretionary and … the Consumer Staple sectors have more significant negative exposure to exchange rate volatility than the other sectors … thus supporting the hypothesis that exchange rate volatility affects stock returns through the channel of international …

- and second-moment exchange rate exposure on individual firm value and the stock return volatility underlying exchange rate … equity financing cost. -- exchange rate exposure ; asymmetric currency exposure ; financial crises ; asymmetric volatility …

The purpose of this study is to examine the volatility-timing performance of Singapore-based funds under the Central …-CPF funds by examining the volatility-timing performance associated with these funds. The volatility-timing ability of CPF funds … to capture the response of funds to market abnormal conditional volatility including the weekday effect. The SMB and HML …

exchange rate variables such as the U.S. dollar exchange rate, etc. Second, we add exchange rate volatility as a control … volatility with an increase in return horizon. Consequently the ratio of firms with significant exposures increases with the … return horizons. Interestingly, the increase of exposure with the return horizons is faster for exposure to volatility than …