In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy … 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited signs of volatility, owing to the breakdown in interbank market … activity. The determinants of this volatility are assessed using Stochastic Volatility models to gauge the role played by …

Gold and Silver. Volatility spillovers are bigger in size and affect most commodity returns. Both first and second moment … financial assets, are sensitive to macro news (especially their volatility), and also suggest that the global financial crisis …

. 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 …

suggests that oil price volatility affects stock returns positively during periods characterised by demand-side shocks in all …

A growing literature uses changes in residual volatility for identifying structural shocks in vector autoregressive … in applications in this context. This study reviews the different volatility models and points out their advantages and …

volatility of macroeconomic variables. Such identification approach allows us to simultaneously address two major questions in …

data properties. In particular, it is shown that changes in the volatility of the shocks can be used for identification …

This paper considers the problem of model uncertainty in the case of multi-asset volatility models and discusses the … management. Evaluation of volatility models is then considered and a simple Value-at-Risk (VaR) diagnostic test is proposed for …

We use realized volatility to study the influence of central bank interventions on the yen/dollar exchange rate …. Realized volatility is a technical innovation that allows specifying a system of equations for returns, realized volatility … increase in volatility associated with interventions. During the period 1999 through 2004, the estimations are consistent with …