This paper constructs a global tail risk (GTR) index and examines the role of GTR in predicting the volatility of … international stock markets. Our empirical results emphasize that GTR contains valuable information to predict the stock volatility … improve the forecasting accuracy of international stock market volatility, especially considering the time-varying regime …

for each country, and investigates the spillover effects on the country-level stock market idiosyncratic volatility across … on the country-level stock market idiosyncratic volatility. We find that that the effect of developed … idiosyncratic volatility continues when we utilize various economic, financial, and political risk factors as controls, as well as …