The EU carbon market serves as an innovative financial instrument with the primary objective of contributing to mitigate the impacts of climate change. This market demonstrates significant interconnectedness with fossil energy, precious metal, and financial markets, although limited research has...

"The paper analyzes aggregate idiosyncratic volatility (IV) in G7 countries using recent data up to 2003. Consistent with Campbell, Lettau, Malkiel, and Xu's (2001) results obtained from U.S. data over the period 1962-97, we find that the equal-weighted IV exhibits a significant upward trend in...