information content). Various forecasting performance tests are carried out which suggest that both implied volatility and …This paper compares volatility forecasts for the RTS Index (the main index for the Russian stock market) generated by … alternative models, specifically option-implied volatility forecasts based on the Black-Scholes model, ARCH/GARCH-type model …

strength matter for consistent estimation of risk premia and subsequent inference, thus an estimate of factor strength is …

This paper provides evidence on the degree of persistence of one of the key components of the CAPM, namely the market … risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany … characterized as a random walk process, whilst its volatility is less persistent and exhibits stationary long-memory behaviour …

dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries …) to examine the presence of volatility spillover between oil prices and exchange rates return series. The econometric … rates, and ii) there is significant evidence of volatility spillovers from oil markets to exchange rate markets in the …

describe the most typical features of capital markets like volatility clustering, excess kurtosis and fat tails. As empirical … evidence shows asymmetry is also a prominent feature of stock market returns volatility. The reaction of risk if stock returns …