financial volatility. Uncertainty shocks hitting in recessions are found to trigger a more abrupt drop and a faster recovery in …

. 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 …

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 …

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 …

Russia. The adopted framework allows to analyse interdependence by estimating volatility spillovers, and also contagion by … testing for possible shifts in the transmission of volatility following the introduction of the euro and EU accession. Further …. Furthermore, whilst the introduction of the euro has had mixed effects, EU accession has resulted in an increase in volatility …

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 …