In this paper, we challenge the traditional assumption of a linear relationship between exchange rate volatility and … volatility positively and significantly influences economic growth when growth in government spending is below 6 percent. Above … this 6 percent threshold, volatility exerts an insignificant effect on economic growth. In light of the adoption of a free …

exchange market volatility. Due to increases in market uncertainty, crisis periods exhibit abnormally high levels of volatility …. By studying short-term changes in volatility dynamics, it is possible to identify the start and end dates of crisis … the volatility of rand returns between January 1994 and March 2009. Dummy variables controlling for the detected shifts in …

, however, little attention has been paid to how exchange rate volatility affects the level of financial development in … developing countries, especially in Africa. Given this, this study is conducted to examine the effect of exchange rate volatility … on different measures of financial development. We use GARCH and Stochastic Volatility Methods to generate exchange rate …

The Heston model stands out from the class of stochastic volatility (SV) models mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the … process for the volatility is nonnegative and mean-reverting, which is what we observe in the markets. Secondly, there exists …. -- Heston model ; vanilla option ; stochastic volatility ; Monte Carlo simulation ; Feller condition ; option pricing with FFT …