In this paper, we perform a robust analysis of the determinants of US swap spreads using a wide range of theoretically … the swap spread differ between different horizons. The sensitivity of the parameters to all possible model specifications … has been investigated. Among other things, we find that Treasury- and stock market volatility as well as the activity of …

March 2006. We use (i) the swap yield curves augmented by OIS interest rates (OIS/Swap), and (ii) the JGB yield curve … for each factor between OIS/Swap and FBTB/JGB, and find that the former has a more dominant role of price discovery for …

of the volatility spread to skewness. We measure skewness from option prices and test these predictions. We find that … conditioning on skewness increases the predictive power of the volatility spread and that coefficient estimates accord with theory … the term structure of option-implied volatility, skewness and kurtosis and find that time-dependence in returns has a …

formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates … evidence of divergent behavior in the dynamics of return spillovers vs. volatility spillovers: Return spillovers display a … gently increasing trend but no bursts, whereas volatility spillovers display no trend but clear bursts. …

seasonal pattern for the conditional volatility for the Swedish stock market has been found. The daily turnover in the Swedish … stock market has an impact on and eliminates to some extent seasonal patterns in conditional volatility. The daily turnover … correlated. We can also conclude that a feedback from the US stock market to the conditional volatility in the Swedish market …