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In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity … market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three … considerably from those for Mexico. In particular, the empirical results indicate that volatility spillover effects, but not return …
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This contribution analyzes bull and bear markets from 1954:1-2011:2 in the US-stock index S&P 500. Thereby, a 2-State-Markov-Switching model is applied to figure out bull and bear market regimes within the latter period, whereby the estimated state probabilities are used to estimate a dummy...
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making up the Dow Jones Industrial Index, I calculate intraday upside and downside volatility measures, following Becker et … document that for all the stocks in the sample, mean daily returns following the days when a stock's upside volatility measure … was higher or equal to its downside volatility measure are higher than following the days when the opposite relationship …
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The authors re-examine the return-volatility relationship and its dynamics under a new vector autoregression (VAR … the recently published VKOSPI (in Korea) - and their stock market indices, the authors find an asymmetric volatility …
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observed that the volatility shocks are quite persistent and take a long time to die out. September 11, 2001incident and … thereafter war on terror has increased the conditional volatility of foreign direct investment and has statistically significant … volatility. One interesting finding of this study is that the impact of Non-Democratic regime before September, 11 scenario is …
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A model-free methodology is used for the first time to estimate a daily volatility index (VIBEX-NEW) for the Spanish … display a negative, tight contemporaneous relationship with IBEX daily returns, contrary to other common volatility indicators …, as an implied volatility indicator or a GARCH(1,1) conditional volatility model. This relationship is approximately …
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This paper examines the impacts of U.S. conventional and unconventional monetary policy announcements on the volatility … in the analysis. Results show that the exchange rate volatility increases significantly in the narrow window before and … after the announcements under conventional monetary policy regime. The increase in the volatility is even greater during the …
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This paper employs weighted least squares to examine the risk-return relation by applying high-frequency data from four major stock indexes in the US market and finds some evidence in favor of a positive relation between the mean of the excess returns and expected risk. However, by using...
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