The VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, strongly co-moves with measures of the monetary policy … stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility …

This paper models volatility spillovers from mature to emerging stock markets, tests for changes in the transmission … estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs). Wald tests suggest that mature market volatility affects conditional … variances in local markets rise as well, volatility in mature markets rises more, and this shift is the main factor behind the …

speculative trading increases. As a result, market liquidity deteriorates and short-term volatility rises. Our findings hold for a …

I estimate the transmission of large global volatility shocks in international equity markets from the earlier (pre … significant increases in unanticipated volatility in US equity markets, which I relate to well-known historical events. My …

We provide evidence that changes in the equity price and volatility of individual firms (measures that approximate the … fluctuations in a number of countries. Specifically, adding the return and the volatility of firm-level equity prices to aggregate …

-ask spread and increased volatility, while it left transaction volumes and returns substantially unaffected. Results are broadly …