attempts to quantify the impact of STT imposition and subsequent revisions on volatility and trading volume during Oct 2003 …-July 2013. Empirical results show a mixed response of volatility and volume to changes in STT. Even though STT has …

We study the impact of oil price shocks on US stock market volatility. We derive three different structural oil shock … variables (i.e. aggregate demand, oil-supply, and oil-demand shocks) and relate them to stock market volatility, using bivariate … stock market volatility only with delay. This implies that innovations to the price of crude oil are not strictly exogenous …