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 …

We examine the market for U.S. equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) for evidence of the volatility effect, in … which low volatility stocks tend to outperform high volatility ones, as has been found in the general equity market by prior … research. While there is some evidence of a volatility effect in the first ten years of the sample, this disappears in a more …

We explore the stock market and option implied volatility response of the oil and gas industry to four policy events … Drilling (CAAR -10.5%) most severely affected. This is further supported by an increase in implied volatility and by a …

we progress through the day. Overnight returns are the most significant in contributing towards the volatility for any …

This paper examines the predictive power of the U.S. term structure over return volatility in emerging stock markets … show that the U.S. term structure indeed contains predictive information over emerging stock market volatility, even after … volatility compared to the maturity premium component of the yield spread. We also find that the U.S. term structure has gained …

. This paper empirically examines (a) the statistical properties of the Korea's representative implied volatility index … volatility process of the index, using augmented heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models with exogenous covariates. The results … macroeconomic variables explain the VKOSPI. More importantly, we find that the stock market return and implied volatility index of …

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 …