This paper empirically investigates the impact of U.S. monetary policy surprises on the volatility of stock market returns for euro area countries. More specifically, to extract the unanticipated component of the U.S. monetary policy, we follow the Kuttner's methodology and we use the federal...

Purpose This paper provides an important perspective to the predictive capacity of Fed and European Central Bank (ECB) meeting dates and production announcements for the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) between Bitcoin and energy commodities returns and volatilities during the period from...