estimation of a GARCH (1,1) model for stock returns shows that their conditional volatility is characterised by lower persistence …

volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have fallen significantly relative to those of the U.S. index. However …

, though their volatility persistence has decreased. …

This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the … particularly severe Covid-19 conditions decrease returns in the non-G7 countries whilst increase volatility in the G7 ones. Fiscal …

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 … ; volatility ; stock market ; transition …

This paper compares volatility forecasts for the RTS Index (the main index for the Russian stock market) generated by … alternative models, specifically option-implied volatility forecasts based on the Black-Scholes model, ARCH/GARCH-type model … information content). Various forecasting performance tests are carried out which suggest that both implied volatility and …