This paper examines the extent to which the conditional volatility of stock market returns in a small, internationally integrated stock market are related to the conditional volatility of financial and business cycle variables. It employs a low frequency monthly dataset for Australia including...

We examine the causes of conditional volatility in a small, internationally integrated stock market using the Irish stock market as an example. We relate Irish stock market conditional volatility to the conditional volatility of the British stock market and business cycle variables from July...

We build a corpus of over 5½ million news articles on 20 large US firms over the 10-year period from January 2001 to December 2010, and use it to study the time-varying nature of the relation between media-expressed firm-specific tone and firm-level returns. By estimating a series of separate...