This paper develops textual sentiment measures for China's stock market by extracting the textual tone of 60 million messages posted on a major online investor forum in China from 2008 to 2018. We conduct sentiment extraction by using both conventional dictionary methods based on customized word...

This study investigates the role of probability distribution in forecasting volatility and Value-at-Risk (VaR). We use the Realized GARCH model and high-frequency data from the cryptocurrency market and show that the role of probability distribution varies across different situations. A skewed-t...