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We investigate the volatility structure of gold, trading as a futures contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT … properties we also utilize a rarely used measure of volatility–the Garman Klass estimator – to provide new insights in intraday … and interday volatility. This nonparametric measure incorporates the open, close, high and low price within a particular …
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This paper examines calendar anomalies (day-of-the-week and monthly seasonal effects) in cash and stock index futures returns. We consider daily data from FTSE100 (UK), FTSE/ASE-20 (Greece), S&P500 (US) and Nasdaq100 (US) spot and future indexes over the period 2004–2011. We employ a...
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Brazil has the largest stock market in South America; Argentina has one of the smallest. We investigate the spread relationship between these two markets, measured as the ratio of Brazil's Bovespa index to Argentina's Merval index. Using rescaled range analysis, we identify the presence of a...
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study, we use a newly introduced spillover index to examine dynamic spillovers between spot and futures market volatility … and UK. Specifically, the spot and futures volatility spillovers between the UK and US markets are of bidirectional nature …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of trading volume and open interest on volatility of futures … employ a E-GARCH model and consider the asymmetric response of volatility to shocks of different sign. Further, the authors … consider a regression framework to examine the contemporaneous relationships between volatility, trading volume and open …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between weather (temperature) and stock market returns using daily data from Portugal; also, to examine whether the temperature is driven by calendar‐related anomalies such as the January and trading month effects....
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only for the pre‐2008 period of the financial crisis but also for the period of high volatility of stock market returns …
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We propose novel nonparametric estimators for stochastic volatility and the volatility of volatility. In doing so, we … relax the assumption of a constant volatility of volatility and therefore, we allow the volatility of volatility to vary … Standard & Poor´s 500 equity index, the estimates revealed strong evidence that both volatility and the volatility of …
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