predicting monthly US excess stock returns and volatility over the period 1980-2005. Factor-augmented predictive regression … superior market timing ability and volatility timing ability, while a mean-variance investor would be willing to pay an annual …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the asymmetric relationship betweenprice and implied volatility and the … todemonstrate that the relationship between the volatility and market return as quantifiedby Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression … is not uniform across the distributionof the volatility-price return pairs using quantile regressions. We examine …

In this paper, we study the dynamic interdependencies between high-frequency volatility, liquidity demand as well as …. Liquidity is causal for future volatility but not vice versa. Furthermore, trade sizes are negatively driven by past trading …

describe the most typical features of capital markets like volatility clustering, excess kurtosis and fat tails. As empirical … evidence shows asymmetry is also a prominent feature of stock market returns volatility. The reaction of risk if stock returns …

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 …

In this paper, we examine the evolution of the S&P500 returns volatility around market crashes using a Markov …-Switching model. We find that volatility typically switches into the high volatility state well before a crash and remains in the high … volatility by uniformed traders result in a crash. …