This paper investigates possible drivers of volatility in the South African rand since the onset of the global … financial crisis. We assess the role played by local and international economic surprises, commodity price volatility, global … market risk perceptions, and local political uncertainty. As a measure of rand volatility, the study uses a market …

This paper examines co-movements and volatility spillovers in the returns of the euro, the British pound, the Swiss … franc and the Japanese yen vis-à-vis the US dollar before and after the introduction of the euro. Based on dynamic … significant co-movements and volatility spillovers across the four exchange returns, but their extend is, on average, lower in the …

variance risk premium in the U.S. and non-U.S. countries. We argue that VPI theoretically proxies the difference in volatility …