The literature on the fundamental relationship between risk and return is largely inconclusive. We show that accounting for structural breaks and utilizing a large sample is required for correctly estimating this risk-return tradeoff within the GARCH framework. The above two factors affect the...

This paper employs univariate and bivariate GARCH models to examine the volatility of gold and oil futures incorporating structural breaks using daily returns from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 2010. We find strong evidence of significant transmission of volatility between gold and oil returns when...