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This paper builds on the ARCH approach for modeling distributions with time-varying conditional variance by using the generalized Student t distribution. The distribution offers flexibility in modeling both leptokurtosis and asymmetry (characteristics seen in high-frequency financial time series...
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frequency volatility—i.e., the component of volatility that persists for longer than one harvest year—may be more challenging as … uncertainty regarding its persistence is likely to be higher. This paper measures the low frequency volatility of food commodity … spot prices using the spline- GARCH approach. It finds that low frequency volatility is positively correlated across …
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(RBA) have had on the level and volatility of the Australian dollar exchange rate. First, using an event study we evaluate … Australian dollar. Second, we investigate the effects of RBA intervention policies on exchange rate volatility over the floating … volatility, which suggests that official intervention may have added to market uncertainty. Overall, the effects of RBA …
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During 2001-07, increases in mature market volatility were associated with declines in forex returns for East Asian … increase in mature market equity volatility generated an exchange rate depreciation of up to 1⁄2 percent. This sensitivity rose …"" volatility in forex markets. Long-run forex volatility declined as Asian economies settled down with generally stronger …
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This paper, using T-GARCH models, finds that the United States has been the major source of price and volatility … ""stock market correction"" period. There is also evidence of structural breaks in the stock price and volatility dynamics …
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Using realized volatility to estimate conditional variance of financial returns, we compare forecasts of volatility …
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Statistical measures of the volatility of exchange rates, interest rates, and stock prices are estimated for a number … of countries. Periods of high volatility are identified and compared with periods of financial difficulty. The results … indicate that GARCH models of volatility could be potentially useful in assessing financial soundness. Daily data are more …
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explore this question by comparing long-run volatility trends in CEE currencies and the euro. We find that these trends are … euro. Spillovers of volatility across regional markets appear to have diminished over time, with the exception of the … Hungarian forint, which remains a source of volatility shocks to regional currencies …
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, which links individual firms' DD to their real world PD. Since changes in the DD depend on a handful of parameters, the …
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-loser” reversals across 16 national equity markets. A conclusion is that national stock market indices include a common world component …
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