Volatility has been one of the most active and successful areas of research in time series econometrics and economic … empirical insights to emerge from this burgeoning literature, with a distinct focus on forecasting applications. Volatility is … inherently latent, and Section 1 begins with a brief intuitive account of various key volatility concepts. Section 2 then …

It appears that volatility in equity markets is asymmetric: returns and conditional volatility are negatively … correlated. We provide a unified framework to simultaneously investigate asymmetric volatility at the firm and the market level … empirical evidence on asymmetry to Japanese stocks. Although volatility asymmetry is present and significant at the market and …

a GARCH process for conditional volatility. Under such heteroskedasticity, OLS estimators or parameters in single …

It is sometimes argued that an increase in stock market volatility raises required stock returns, and thus lowers stock … for this volatility feedback effect. The resulting model is asymmetric, because volatility feedback amplifies large … for large crashes. The model also implies that volatility feedback is more important when volatility is high. In U …

, analyze, and manage macroeconomic risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). We … accounting, improve price and volatility discovery, and expand international risk intermediation activities …

categorizing the various volatility concepts, measurement procedures, and modeling procedures. We define three different volatility …Volatility has been one of the most active areas of research in empirical finance and time series econometrics during … concepts: (i) the notional volatility corresponding to the ex-post sample-path return variability over a fixed time interval …

This paper introduces the News Impact Curve to measure how new information is incorporated into volatility estimates. A … shape of the News Impact Curve. New diagnostic tests are presented which emphasize the asymmetry of the volatility response …