In this study, we investigate the dynamic volatility connectedness of FinTech, innovative technology communication, and cryptocurrency indices for the period from June 2018 to June 2022. We investigate the connectivity and risk spillovers before and after the COVID-19 period to understand the...

Across the globe, COVID-19 has disrupted the financial markets, making them more volatile. Thus, this paper examines the market volatility and asymmetric behavior of Bitcoin, EUR, S&P 500 index, Gold, Crude Oil, and Sugar during the COVID-19 pandemic. We applied the GARCH (1, 1), GJR-GARCH (1,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant financial losses globally, increasing the volatility of financial assets. To address this issue, this study models the stock market returns volatility of developed economies during the pandemic using the GJR-GARCH (1, 1) family. The dataset includes...

We employ low-frequency data to estimate historical volatility measures for Hong Kong stocks and examine the relationship between these measures and the one-month ahead stock return over thirty-five years. First, we employ a stock's past three-year weekly return to compute idiosyncratic...

Asynchronous trading hours between the markets of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and their benchmarks not only make it difficult to apply a full replication strategy but also make the creation/redemption process ineffective and consequently distress the performance of international ETFs. Despite...

This paper examines the impact of net buying pressure and the event of 9/11 on the implied volatility of the U.K. FTSE 100 (Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange) index options. Our findings indicate that when effects such as financial leverage, information flow and mean reversion are...

This paper investigates the nature of volatility spillovers between stock returns and hedge funds returns in twelve Asia Pacific countries in the 1997-2018 period. The sample period encompasses sub periods, 1997 Asia financial crisis, 2008 Global financial crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis; these...