In this paper we study implied and realized volatility for the Nordic power forward market. We create an implied volatility index with a fixed time to maturity. This index is compared to a realized volatility time series calculated from high-frequency data. The results show that the implied...

This study examines the generalized Fisher hypothesis as applied to common stocks by using the recently proposed second generation panel cointegration tests. Unlike their predecessors, these new tests assume the existence of cross-section dependence in the data. For the sample analyzed, we...

The impact of fees on mutual fund performance has received little research attention as is also the cases of performance differences of two classes of funds, one the common mutual funds and the other mutual funds with strict compliance with filters based on a number of binding restrictions as in...

This paper proposes an empirical study of the shape of recoveries in financial markets from a bounce-back augmented Markov Switching model. This model is estimated for monthly stock market returns data of five developed countries for the post-1970 period. The presence and shape of the...

The efficient markets hypothesis implies that arbitrage opportunities in markets such as those for foreign exchange (FX) would be, at most, short-lived. The present paper surveys the fragmented nature of FX markets, revealing that information in these markets is also likely to be fragmented. The...

Japan exports sophisticated capital goods. Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Japanese companies have offshored the production of lower-end goods and parts and components to Asian countries. Because of this, several researchers argued that a weaker yen no longer stimulates machinery...

El documento discute la incidencia reciente que tiene la tasa de interés norteamericana (Prime Rate) en la formación bruta de capital en Colombia. Se desarrolla con base en el modelo Solow-Swan ampliado que fuera presentado inicialmente por Mankiw, Romer y Weil en 1992, y seguido en el mismo...

Las reformas del Consenso de Washington impactaron, de manera determinante, la estructura económica de los países de América Latina, en especial, sobre la percepción de liberalizar los mercados y dejar al juego de oferta y demanda la determinación de las tasas de interés y los tipos de...

La Aplicación de Modelos EGARCH a la prueba del CAPM párr Colombia permite concluir Que Este sí da Bajo conditions de Alta volatilidad Y Que Se Puede utilizar Como Herramienta para el Análisis Financiero y las Proyecciones de Rentabilidad de Activos Financieros y reales. Igualmente, los...

Since correlation may be interpreted as a measure of the influence across time-series, it may be conveniently mapped into a distance and into a weighted adjacency matrix. Based on such matrix, network theory has attempted to filter out the noise in correlation matrices by extracting the dominant...