Understanding the pattern of stock market volatility is important to investors as well as for investment policy …. Volatility is directly associated with risks and returns, higher the volatility the more financial market is unstable. The … volatility of the Zimbabwean stock market is modeled using monthly return series consisting of 109 observations from January 2010 …

with within-year seasonality. We reduce the effect of price volatility on the dividend-price ratio by applying a simple …Even in large equity markets, the dividend-price ratio is significantly related with the growth of future dividends. In … smoothing technique, and we identify the component of the smoothed dividend-price ratio that offers predictive power. An …