The present study addresses the economic interpretation of stock market volatility. We argue that its character is inherently ambivalent, being considered as an indicator of either information flow or uncertainty.We discriminate between these views by measuring the fraction of price changes that...

In this paper we investigate whether cross-sectional information from local equity markets contained information on devaluation expectations during the Asian crisis. We concentrate on the information content of equity prices as these markets were in general the largest and most liquid at the...

Using overnight volatility as the proxy for overnight information, this paper models future Chinese stock market realized range-based volatility (RRV) within a class of heterogeneous autoregressive models augmented by this proxy. We confirm the important role of overnight information in...