Stock market volatility is a matter of great interest for researchers and policy makers. The present study examines the volatility of daily, weekly and monthly stock returns in view of economic growth rate. It investigates the hypothesis that high economic growth rate tend to stabilize the...

This paper examines long memory volatility in international stock markets. We show that long memory volatility is widespread in a panel dataset of eighty-two countries and that the degree of memory in the panel can be related to macroeconomic variables such as short- and long-run interest rates...