English Abstract: This study selected predictors for interest rate volatility and empirically analyzed the dynamic … relationship among selected variables using time series methods. In doing so, it considered realized volatility treasury bonds rate … bonds market volatility was the strongest predictive variable. The lagged volatility of treasury rate and won …

English Abstract: In this paper, we investigate if the weather affects the stock returns, the volatility of stock … volatility of stock returns is however affected …

components of output and interest rate are similar to HP-filtered counterparts, despite some differences in persistence and … volatility, while inflation resembles that from BK filtering. This implies that the usual practice of applying a single filtering … price indexation, habit turns out to be important in explaining the persistence of business cycles. Comparison of several …

English Abstract: This study has attempted to seek a volatility forecasting model that can reflect sufficiently the … long memory characteristic in the volatility of four Eastern European emerging stock markets, namely, Hungary, Poland … capture the long memory property in the volatility of these markets than the GARCH and IGARCH models. More importantly, the …

) effect can account for the persistence of deviations from PPP in the long-run movements of won/dollar and won/yen real …