The influence of past stock price movements on volatilities and correlations is essential for understanding diversification and contagion in financial markets. We develop a model that makes the influence of past returns on volatilities and correlations explicit. Employing information about...

We propose a new approach to the definition of stress scenarios for volatilities and correlations. Correlations and volatilities depend on a common market factor, which is the key to stressing them in a consistent and intuitive way. Our approach is based on a new asset price model where...

The influence of past stock price movements on correlations and volatilities is essential for understanding diversification and contagion in financial markets. We develop a model that makes the influence of past returns, aggregated into driving factors for correlations and volatilities,...