quantify inter-market relations. The approach is based on the correlations between the market index, the index volatility, the … relations between six important world markets - U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, China and India from January 2000 until December … 2010. We found that while the developed ``western'' markets (U.S., U.K., Germany), are highly correlated, the …

We investigate the predictability of both volatility and volume for a large sample of Japanese stocks. The particular … practically always improves upon the na?ve forecast provided by historical volatility. As a somewhat surprising result, we also …

Bayesian forecasting of volatility. However, applicability of MLE is restricted to cases with a discrete distribution of … volatility components. From a practical point of view, ML also becomes computationally unfeasible for large numbers of components … forecasts which in principle is applicable for any continuous distribution with any number of volatility components. Monte Carlo …

We investigate the predictability of both volatility and volume for a large sample of Japanese stocks. The particular … practically always improves upon the na?ve forecast provided by historical volatility. As a somewhat surprising result, we also …