Serious concerns about the invasion of digital footprint information privacy due to intense commercial promotion through data mining has led to the emergence of privacy by design in the form of the Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism. This paper attempts to construct a theory to justify and find an...

We carry out a value-at-risk (VaR) analysis of an extremely popular strategy in the currency markets, namely, “carry trades,” whereby a position purchased in high interest rate currencies is funded by selling low interest rate currencies. Since the natural outcome of the truncated normal...

In this study, we use the 'heterogeneous autoregressive' (HAR) model and replace all squared returns with a squared range to estimate realized range-based volatility (RRV) forecasts for oil futures prices. Our findings demonstrate that the HAR-RRV models, involving volatility measures with a...