“Macroeconomic Effects on Emerging Market Sector Indices”. As emerging countries continue to gain in importance for the world economy …

volatility on foreign exchange markets. Starting point is the market participant's microeconomic investment decision, which is … trading volume and volatility on foreign exchange markets. We apply various two-country-models with representative market …

into volatility persistence in stock returns. In part two, I show that the introduction of continuous trading on the WSE is … volatility on days after limit hits and positive autocorrelation in stock returns. I do not find significant advantages of this …

an independent variable. Unit root test was applied on each variable and bound test approach was adopted for co-integration … according to the result of the test. Short and long term relationships of variables were analyzed using ARDL approach. According …

We quantify the effects on contingent claim valuation of using an estimator for the volatility of a geometric Brownian … motion (GBM) process. That is, we show what difficulties can arise when failing to account for estimation risk. Our working … problem uses a direct estimator of volatility based on the sample standard deviation of increments from the underlying …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …