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 …

estimation of a VAR-GARCH model. The results can be summarized as follows. Negative news have significant positive effects on … reaction has increased during the recent financial crisis. News volatility has a significant impact on yield spread 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 …

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 …

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 …