The study empirically examined the macroeconomic impact of remittances on private savings in Pakistan by applying the ARDL Bounds Testing Approach of co integration by using annual time series data for 1973-2007.It also analyzes the effectiveness of remittances and foreign direct investment in...

We examine the intertemporal relationships between Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) market volatility index (VIX) and returns of the S&P 100, 500 and 600 indexes among three subperiods during 1992--2011 to account for structural shifts in VIX and to investigate if the role of VIX as an...

This article estimates the premium for volatility risk using option prices for the British pound from 1993 to 1995. The risk premium is estimated as the difference between a hedge portfolio return and risk-free return. The annualized premium for volatility risk is statistically non-zero....

This paper examines the dynamic relations between future price volatility of the S&P 500 index and trading volume of S&P 500 options to explore the informational role of option volume in predicting the price volatility. The future volatility of the index is approximated alternatively by implied...

This study examines the intertemporal relationships between CBOE market volatility index (VIX) and stock market returns in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC), and between VIX and U.S. stock market returns, to uncover if VIX serves as an investor fear gauge in BRIC and U.S. markets. We...

We investigate the cross-market differential relations of U.S. stock market uncertainty (VIX) with U.S. and European stock market returns before and during the European equity market crisis. Also, we examine whether VIX has predictive ability with respect to short-run European stock market...