The article builds indices of social well-being based on Google Trends Data for predicting VCIOM indices. The Google indices were computed using a Google Trends dataset for 2006–2016 containing 512 search queries relative to housing conditions, income, education, etc., and applying factor...

This part completes the consultation series dealing with bitcoin price modelling. Particularly, the analysis focuses on the econometric approaches suggested to model bitcoin price dynamics, the tests used for detecting the existence of financial bubbles in bitcoin prices and the methodologies...

Bitcoin is an open source decentralized digital currency and a payment system. It has raised a lot of attention and interest worldwide and an increasing number of articles are devoted to its operation, economics and financial viability. This article reviews the econometric and mathematical tools...

This paper focuses on the forecasting of market risk measures for the Russian RTS index future, and examines whether augmenting a large class of volatility models with implied volatility and Google Trends data improves the quality of the estimated risk measures. We considered a time sample of...

This paper proposes a set of models which can be used to estimate the market risk for a portfolio of crypto-currencies, and simultaneously to estimate also their credit risk using the Zero Price Probability (ZPP) model by Fantazzini et al (2008), which is a methodology to compute the...

Заключительная часть консультации посвящена описанию подходов к эмпирическому подбору подходящей копула-функции и методов статистической проверки гипотез,...

The current volatile market situation with sudden changes seems all but predictable. However, some recent works have suggested that, prior to crashes as well as after crashes, financial asset prices can be characterized by a power law acceleration decorated with log-periodic oscillations....

This paper investigates the intraday volatility pattern of the E-mini SP500 hourly returns. In order to account for the observed long memory and periodicity in returns volatility we introduce the Fractionally Integrated Periodic EGARCH and the Seasonal Fractional Integrated Periodic EGARCH. For...

Current world capacity of hydrocarbon liquefaction is around 400,000 barrels per day (kb/d), providing a marginal share of the global liquid fuel supply. This study performs a broad review of technical, economic, environmental, and supply chains issues related to coal-to-liquids (CTL) and...