volatility exhibits significant and negative impacts on stock market returns, except for the stock markets of China, Hong Kong …This study examines the long run impacts of equity market volatility on index returns of nine major international stock … exchanges in the Western and Asian regions. This study employs the text-based Economic Market Volatility (EMV) index to measure …

value robust volatility estimator with respect to the standard robust volatility estimator as proposed in the paper by … Muneer & Maheswaran (2018b). We show that the robust volatility ratio is unbiased both in the population as well as in finite … samples. We empirically test the robust volatility ratio on 9 global stock indices from America, Asia Pacific and EMEA markets …