The literature agrees that bad news increases volatility but disagrees over the impact of good news on stock market volatility and often report it as statistically insignificant. This article shows that accounting for endogenously determined structural breaks within the asymmetric Generalized...

This paper examines volatility and correlation dynamics in price returns of gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and explores the corresponding risk management implications for market risk and hedging. Value-at-Risk (VaR) is used to analyze the downside market risk associated with investments...