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According to the Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis (MDH), returns volatility and trading volume are driven by a …) volatility and trading volume changes in different financial markets. An implication is that returns volatility in one stock … market should show positive and contemporaneous correlation with returns volatility in another stock market. This paper tests …
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The method proposed in this chapter is making use of the bispectrum transformation to estimate the level of integration of a fractionally integrated time series. Bispectrum ransformation transforms the series into a two dimensional frequency space, and thus has higher information content...
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and volatility of the Shanghai market were higher. The rates of returns in the two markets were approximately serially … uncorrelated and mutually uncorrelated. Volatility, as measured by the absolute change in the rate of return, has positive serially … correlations in both markets as expected, but the autoregressions are temporarily unstable. Most surprisingly the volatility …
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distributions retain their shape, but not their localization (mean ) or size (volatility ) as the classical Gaussian distributions … time T and frequency . For example, the volatility of the lognormal financial price distribution, derived from the … generally, the volatility of the price return distributions of Calvet and Fisher's (2002) Multifractal Model for Asset Returns …
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This essay discusses first two competing hypotheses of market efficiency: the classical Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) of Samuelson and Fama, and the Fractal Market Hypothesis (FMH) of Mandelbrot and Peters and their weaknesses. The EMH depends on the empirically uncorroborated i.i.d. (=...
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The paper analyzes two questions: (i) the effect of a monetary policy shock on the business cycle and (ii) the extent to which a shift in a monetary policy affects the dynamics of business cycle. Unlike previous literature, to answer these questions, we measure cycle movements by calculating an...
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There exists no consensus regarding the definition and the measure of persistence. We aim to spark research interests to address the lack of a standard definition. This paper reviews this issue and proposes an informal definition to unemployment persistence.
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output volatility, as the moderation of output volatility occurred after the early eighties is confirmed only for the Euro …
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, estimation from aggregate consumption uncovers the low EIS of the majority (i.e., the poor). …
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This paper deals with the estimation of optimal hedge ratios. A number of recent papers have demonstrated that the …
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