Volatility of financial markets is an important topic for academics, policy makers and market participants. In this … these specifications. Then assuming that the squared returns are the benchmark estimate for actual volatility of the day, I … compare all of the models with respect to how much efficient they are to mimic the realized volatility. At the same time I …

According to the Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis (MDH), returns volatility and trading volume are driven by a …) volatility and trading volume changes in different financial markets. An implication is that returns volatility in one stock … market should show positive and contemporaneous correlation with returns volatility in another stock market. This paper tests …

A time-changing volatility binomial tree to price European options is presented followed by an algorithm explaining how …

reveal that trading volume appears to capture a significant part of volatility asymmetric behavior. In general, our results …

asset pricing framework. The dependence between price movements and future volatility is introduced through a set of latent …

volatility across different time scales. We call this property asymmetric vertical dependence. It is asymmetric in the sense that … a low volatility state (regime) at a long time horizon is most likely followed by low volatility states at shorter time … horizons. On the other hand, a high volatility state at long time horizons does not necessarily imply a high volatility state …

macroeconomic analysis, market microstructure analysis and order flow analysis, to forecast the volatility in the foreign currencies …