foreign exchange markets. -- Random Lognormal cascades ; GMM estimation ; best linear forecasting ; volatility of financial … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation procedure to cope with the documented difficulties of previous methodologies. We … by estimating the intermittency parameter and forecasting of volatility for a sample of financial data from stock and …

certain foreign exchange and U.S. Treasury security returns without contaminating estimates of their integrated volatility … without contaminating volatility estimates; bond returns may be sampled as frequently as once every 2 to 3 minutes on days … higher than those often recommended in the empirical literature on realized volatility in equity markets. The higher sampling …

This paper examines the effect of foreign exchange news announcements on the volatility of stock returns in Nigeria … volatility equations. The empirical results revealed a positive and significant effect of exchange news announcements on stock … market volatility in Nigeria under symmetric conditional variance. However, there was strong evidence of asymmetric effect …

In this paper, we review the most common specifications of discrete-time stochastic volatility (SV) models and … indices and foreign exchange rates. -- Stochastic volatility ; Markov chain Monte Carlo ; Metropolis-Hastings algorithm Jump …

- and second-moment exchange rate exposure on individual firm value and the stock return volatility underlying exchange rate … equity financing cost. -- exchange rate exposure ; asymmetric currency exposure ; financial crises ; asymmetric volatility …

We find a robust negative effect of exchange rate volatility on S&P500 company returns. The Consumer Discretionary and … the Consumer Staple sectors have more significant negative exposure to exchange rate volatility than the other sectors … thus supporting the hypothesis that exchange rate volatility affects stock returns through the channel of international …

Many recent papers have investigated the role played by volatility in determining the cross-section of currency returns … returns from the currency carry trade. We show that the importance of volatility depends on whether the currency markets are … unexpectedly volatile. Volatility innovations during relatively tranquil periods are largely unrewarded in the market, whereas …