Forecasts of stock market volatility is an important input for market participants in measuring and managing investment risks. Thus, understanding the most appropriate methods to generate accurate is key. This paper examines the ability of Machine Learning methods, and specifically Artificial...

This paper examines the predictability of a range of international stock markets where we allow the presence of both local and global predictive factors. Recent research has argued that US returns have predictive power for international stock returns. We expand this line of research, following...