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claims. This approach is used to estimate the implied volatility of the resulting model. The first part of the thesis … volatility and implied volatility. A new method is then provided to estimate the implied volatility from the model. The third …
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) incommodity futures price volatility spurious, following Granger?s conjecture? Yes,only two out of eleven commodities are ….Second, do large Index Traders such as commodity pools and pension funds increasefutures price volatility through a large volume …
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-market influence exerted by PA is felt in longer dynamics, with PA volatility (volume) affecting NR (GA) volume (volatility). Our … findings are robust to lag-specification, volatility measure, and consistent with full BEKK-GARCH estimation results. Further …
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This thesis will first criticize standard financial theory. The focus will be on return distributions, efficient market hypothesis and the independence of returns. Part two gives the intuition to look at markets in a different view. Namely the one proposed by B. Mandelbrot who has shown that...
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Financial processes may possess long memory and their probability densities may display heavy tails. Many models have been developed to deal with this tail behaviour, which reflects the jumps in the sample paths. On the other hand, the presence of long memory, which contradicts the efficient...
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We employ a number of parametric and non-parametric techniques toestablish the existence of long-range dependence in daily interbank o errates for four countries. We test for long memory using classical R=Sanalysis, variance-time plots and Lo's (1991) modi ed R=S statistic. Inaddition we...
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This paper analyses the implicit dynamics underlying the interest rate structure inKenya. For this purpose we use data on four commercial banks? interest rates (Deposits,Savings, Lending and Overdraft) together with the 91-Day Treasury Bill rate, for thetime period July 1991 ? August 2010, and...
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The local Hurst exponent, a measure employed to detect the presence of dependence in a time series, may also be used to … Hurst exponent may be due to either a time-varying range, or standard deviation, or both of these simultaneously, values for … the range, standard deviation and local Hurst exponent are recorded and analyzed separately. To illustrate this approach …
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, wavelets, and instant messaging as a comprehensive decision support solution to address data utility and resource availability …
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-NAFTA period, the volatility of pair-wise correlation of business cycles declined during NAFTA. In addition, we conclude that, in …
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