The volatility of financial markets has been a relevant topic for transition economies, as the countries of Central and … Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have seemingly endured high levels of volatility in their financial sectors during … the transition process. But what have been the determinants of this financial volatility? This paper posits that …

EGARCH model. Empirical results indicate significant return and volatility spillover effects during the full sample and the …-movements, and strong volatility persistence. During the Russian Great Recession subsample, the ownreturn effects of the markets are … partially integrated and the volatility transmission linkages across them are not that strong in crises periods, thus confirming …

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 …

In this paper, we used the GARCH (1,1) and GARCH-M (1,1) models to investigate volatility and persistence at daily … persistence of volatility, meaning that the conditional volatility tends to revert faster to the long-term mean than the other … statistically significant and positive (thus confirming the hypothesis that an increase in volatility leads an increase in future …