This paper investigates the role of investor attention in forecasting realized volatility for fourteen international … augmented Empirical Similarity model that combines three volatility components, defined over different time horizons, using the … similarity measure between lagged Google search queries and volatility. Results show that investor attention positively affects …

We measure bond and stock conditional return volatility as a function of changes in sentiment, proxied by six …’ conditional volatility of retail investors’ sentiment thanks to a unique dataset of corporate bond returns from a limit …

demand, triggering lasting volatility outbursts. Eventually, however, higher stock market risk reduces stock market … participation and volatility decreases again. Simulations furthermore reveal that our approach is also able to produce bubbles and … crashes, excess volatility, fat-tailed return distributions and serially uncorrelated price changes. …