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 …

market volatility as measured by the VIX. Implying that investor purchase decisions are primarily driven by returns and sale …

Volatility is an important component of asset pricing; an increase in volatility on markets can trigger changes in the … hypothesized that there are movements in risk that are driven by volatility linked to sentiment-driven noise trader activity whose … investor sentiment and stock return volatility which shows that behavioural finance can significantly explain the behaviour of …

The effect of investor sentiment on stock volatility is a highly attractive research question in both the academic … indicators. In addition, we divide the realized volatility into continuous and jump parts, and then investigate the effects of … trading (VPIN), on the path of investor sentiment affecting stock volatility. It is evidenced that investor sentiments are …

based on averages of past futures returns, normalized by their volatility. We test these strategies on a universe of 64 … asset class, realized futures volatility is contemporaneously negatively related to the Fama and French (1987) market (MKT … in trading costs. We construct measures of momentum-specific volatility, both within and across asset classes, and show …

We analyze the impact of sentiment and attention variables on volatility by using a novel and extensive dataset that … for realized volatility when controlling for a wide range of economic and financial predictors. Using a penalized … improve volatility forecasts, although the improvements are of relatively small magnitude from an economic point of view …

VaR forecasts of a set of conditional volatility models. This risk management strategy is GFC-robust in the sense that …