This paper studies the effects of FOMC communication on U.S. financial markets’ returns and volatility using a GARCH … and volatility is larger if the communication channel is more formal. However, since speeches happen much more often than …

equity market returns and volatility over the period 1998–2006. First, both types of news have a significant impact on market … reports lowers price volatility. Finally, American emerging markets react more to U.S. news than non-American markets …

The paper investigates the effect of monetary policy uncertainty on stock market volatility. Higher monetary … uncertainty leads to lower stock market volatility both in sample and out of sample. Monetary policy uncertainty matters more for … the volatility of big firms, profitable firms and past winner firms. The channel of future cash flow volatility helps …

with the US stock market volatility during the pandemic period. Using the wavelet coherence analysis, we first find that … there is a positive relationship between the volatility and death tolls. Second, while in the short term the sizable … volatility have a negative relationship. Finally, the monetary policy and the volatility have much stronger coherency than the …

This paper documents that ECB announcements increase the stock market volatility in the euro area (EA) on the same day …. I consider two volatility measures from January 1998 to May 2019. First, a realized volatility measure uses intraday … data for 8 different stock market indices. Second, a range measure approximates volatility using daily prices from 11 …