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 …

activity. However, using U.S. data since 1950 we show that the macroeconomic response pattern to stock market volatility shocks … decomposition for consumption growth shows that the contribution of stock market volatility becomes negligible as we go from earlier … of stock market volatility …

across countries with lower average stock market volatility, crises are more frequent in countries with poor creditor …

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

, volatility, and cross-market GARCH-in-mean effects. Hypotheses about the importance of different channels are tested. The results …

volatility spillovers during global financial crisis and tranquil periods. The resulting market interconnectedness is depicted by … between markets and somewhat weaker temporal effects with regard to the US equity market – volatility spillovers decrease when … markets are characterized by greater temporal proximity. Volatility spillovers also present a high degree of …

Data show that better creditor protection is correlated across countries with lower average stock market volatility …

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 …

suggests that a global bimetallic system, in which the gold price of silver uctuates, has higher price volatility than a global …