This paper investigates the volatility of daily returns on the Romanian stock market between January 2020 and April 2021. Volatility is analyzed by means of the representative index for Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), namely, the Bucharest Exchange Trading (BET) index, along with twelve...

This paper investigates, both in finite samples and asymptotically, statistical inference on predictive regressions where time series are generated by present value models of asset prices. We show that regression-based tests, including optimal robust tests such as Jasson and Moreira's...

Engle and Russell (1998) introduce the autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) model to model the dynamics of financial duration. It is recognized that the ACD model can be specified in ARMA form. We show that as long as the innovations of the ACD model follows a lognormal distribution, the...