This paper constitutes a first analysis on stock returns and stock return volatility of energy corporations from the … European utilities, they lead to an appreciation of oil and gas stocks. Most importantly, we show that oil market volatility … negatively affects European oil and gas stocks. In contrast, energy stock volatility is not driven by volatility of the resource …

period of 1994q3-2005q2. The results suggest that the real exchange rate volatility and misalignment have depressing effects … volatility proving that the policy-induced changes in exchange rate has a stabilizing effect on trade flows. The implied … elasticity for the most significant real exchange rate volatility coefficient is -0.20. Using a two-step Engle-Granger technique …

The volatility information content of stock options for individual firms is measured using option prices for 149 U ….S. firms and the S&P 100 index. ARCH and regression models are used to compare volatility forecasts defined by historical stock … returns, at-the-money implied volatilities and model-free volatility expectations for every firm. For one-day-ahead estimation …

direction of company-specific news. Information-implied reactions in returns, volatility as well as liquidity demand and supply … London Stock Exchange (LSE), we find market-wide robust news-dependent responses in volatility and trading volume. However …

.28% with a half-life of 0.92 days. Price pressure causes average transitory volatility in daily stock returns of 0.49%. Price …

mean and volatility. The endogenous structural breakpoint unit root test, ARDL model, and alternative volatility models … price while the volatility of global fertilizer prices and crude oil price from March to December 2008 are higher than in …

, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency … misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative (even if not large) impact on trade flows. The extent of this …

period ahead; in the Volatility treatment, we also elicit subjective confidence intervals of forecasts, which we take as a … measure of perceived volatility. The realized asset price is derived from a Walrasian market equilibrium equation with non …-linear feedback from individual forecasts. Our experimental markets exhibit high volatility, fat tails and other properties typical of …

The evidence of volatility-price dependence observed in previous works (Karakatsani and Bunn 2004; Bottazzi, Sapio and … Secchi 2005; Simonsen 2005) suggests that there is more to volatility than simply spikes. Volatility is found to be … NordPool. Prompted by these observations, this paper aims to understand whether volatility-price patterns can be mapped into …

In this paper, the development of price volatility on German agricultural markets is analyzed. The goal is to quantify … the degree of price volatility for selected German agricultural markets and determine how it evolutes over time. Where …, questions are: Was there an increase in price volatility? Did it came from the world markets? What is the impact of price …