This study investigates the relationship between the return on a stock index and its volatility using high frequency data. Two well-known hypotheses are reexamined: the leverage effect and the volatility feedback effect hypotheses. In an analysis of the five-minute data from the Samp;P500 index,...

We develop a conditional version of the consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) using the conditioning variable from the cointegrating relation among macroeconomic variables (dividend yield, term spread, default spread, and short-term interest rate). Our conditioning variable has a...