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 …

return correlations using weekly returns on futures markets and investigate the extent to which multivariate volatility …

-2013. The econometric analysis is based on the estimation of a VAR-GARCH-in-mean model. The results can be summarised as follows …. Positive (negative) news have significant positive (negative) effects on stock returns in all cases. Their volatility has a … significant impact on both stock returns and volatility; specifically, an increase in news volatility is always associated with a …

ten sectoral indices over the period January 1997-Febraury 2014. The estimation of a bivariate VAR-GARCH-in-mean model … suggests that oil price volatility affects stock returns positively during periods characterised by demand-side shocks in all …

conditional volatility across investment horizons. The results reveal the same kind of horizon effect as the one found in recent …

volatility and negatively with returns on assets. Various tests with U.S. firm data using the corporate governance index of …