This paper uses a disaggregated approach to study the volatility of common stocks at the market, industry, and firm … levels. Over the period 1962-97 there has been a noticeable increase in firm-level volatility relative to market volatility …, while the number of stocks needed to achieve a given level of diversification has increased. All the volatility measures …

This paper studies three different measures of monthly stock market volatility: the time-series volatility of daily … market returns within the month; the cross-sectional volatility or 'dispersion' of daily returns on industry portfolios …, within the month. Over the period 1962-97 there has been a noticeable increase in firm-level volatility relative to market …

This paper reviews the literature on idiosyncratic equity volatility since the publication of "Have Individual Stocks …, Gharghori, and Zhong and by Leippold and Svaton, and we present volatility estimates through the end of 2021, significantly … period, idiosyncratic volatility declined thereafter; but sharp increases in market, industry, and idiosyncratic volatility …

Volatility tests are an alternative to regression tests for evaluating the joint null hypothesis of market efficiency … taken to be. By considering tests based on conditional volatility bounds, we show that if the alternative is that one could … conditional volatility tests.If the application is to spot and forward markets, then the most powerful conditional volatility test …

We develop and implement a new method for maximum likelihood estimation in closed-form of stochastic volatility models … unobservable volatility state, to an approximate likelihood procedure where the volatility state is replaced by the implied … volatility of a short dated at-the-money option. We find that the approximation results in a negligible loss of accuracy. We …

, volatility and stock returns. To do this, we use a large sample of individual accounts over a six-year period in the 1990's in …

This paper extends the class of stochastic volatility diffusions for asset returns to encompass Poisson jumps of time … as well as stochastic volatility with a pronounced negative relationship between return and volatility innovations. We …

has also possessed excess volatility' in the past century. It finds no evidence of excess volatility in the pre-World War … I German stock market. By contrast, there is some evidence of excess volatility in the post-World War II German stock … volatility of German stock indices before 1914 …