equity returns, bond yields and measures of market risk such as implied volatility, skewness and kurtosis. Our main finding …

I analyze output growth, volatility, and skewness as the joint outcomes of financial openness. Using an industry panel …

filtered using EGARCH specifications. The estimation results show that upgrades do not have significant effects on volatility …, but downgrades increase stock and bond market volatility. Contagion is present, with sovereign rating announcements … (increase) in volatility in other countries. The empirical results show also a financial gain and risk (value-at-risk) reduction …

This paper empirically analyzes the political, institutional and economic sources of public deficit volatility. Using … show that higher public deficit volatility is typically associated with higher levels of political instability and less … democracy. In addition, public deficit volatility tends to be magnified for small countries, in the outcome of hyper …

and their implementation, payment systems and private market structures) and its implications for intraday volatility …, quoting activity, trading volume and bid-ask spreads in the overnight deposit segment. Volatility and spreads increase right … volatility and no signs of market power or adverse selection. Spreads and volatility were high at the end of the reserve …

, we implement the mixture of log-normals model and a volatility-smoothing method. We discuss the time series behaviour of … second main observation is a significant spillover of volatility, as the implied volatility and kurtosis of the DAX RND are … mostly driven by the volatility of US stock prices. JEL Classification: C22, C51, G13, G15 …

aggregate output across industrial sectors which minimize the economy’s long-term volatility for a given level of long …

future exchange rates. The purpose of this paper is to systematically assess the quality of option based volatility, interval … option prices. We find that the OTC implied volatilities explain a much larger share of the variation in realized volatility …