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This paper examines the impact of federal securities statutes (seven major legislative acts and 535 amendments) on the mean and variance of total real U.S. stock market returns. In contrast to previous work, this study controls for the persistence of the variability of stock returns, employs a...
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domestic volatility after good shocks but a bad hedge after crashes. …
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-parametric regression approach to next-day volatility forecasting. A second finding is that the GARCH(1,1) model severely over-estimated the … unconditional variance leads to poor volatility forecasts during the period under discussion with the MSE of GARCH(1,1) 1-year ahead … volatility more than 4 times bigger than the MSE of a forecast based on historical volatility. We test and reject the hypothesis …
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Purpose – The paper seeks to examine changes in daily return volatility associated with open market share repurchases … explore relations between daily return volatility and a number of variables. Findings – This study finds evidence that an open … market share repurchase firm, by actively buying back its shares when the share price falls, reduces daily return volatility …
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. Specifically, having modelled the market volatility return like a GARCH (1,1) process and having defined three regimes of … volatility (low, neutral and high), we find that most of the betas in volatility classes are meaningful and positive. We also …
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effect on the market return volatility for the period 1999-2005. GARCH and EGARCH models are used to generate variance series … hits and bank returns volatility when it is generated from GARCH model. The price limits policy in ASE does not have their … positive effect in reducing bank return volatility, a result consistent with Chen (1993) and Phylaktis et al. (1999). …
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We extend range-based volatility estimation to the multivariate case. In particular, we propose a range …
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The paper outlines a methodology for analyzing daily stock returns that relinquishes the assumption of global stationarity. Giving up this common working hypothesis reflects our belief that fundamental features of the financial markets are continuously and significantly changing. Our approach...
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It is widely recognized that interest groups affect both microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. However, few researchers have attempted to discern empirically the factors that contribute to interest group activity. This paper provides a test of several theories of group formation in a panel...
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with a reduction in average annual stock market returns of roughly 2-5%, and a reduction in the volatility of annual stock …
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