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interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall … gains from hedging long-term bonds with interest rate derivatives. These bonds can help develop interest-rate derivative …
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This paper finds that systematic default risk, or the event of widespread defaults in the corporate sector, is an important determinant of equity returns. Moreover, the market price of systematic default risk is one order of magnitude higher than the market price of other risk factors. In...
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Option prices provide valuable information on market expectations. This paper attempts to extract market expectations, as conveyed by an implied risk-neutral probability distribution, from option prices for the dollar-euro exchange rate. Returns'' volatilities are inferred from observed and...
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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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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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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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(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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