This study examines the conditional volatility and correlation dependency and interdependency for the four major precious metals (that is, gold, silver, platinum and palladium), while accounting for geopolitics within a multivariate system. The implications of the estimated results for portfolio...

This paper examines the daily volatility of changes in yield on the 10-year Treasury note utilizing the iterated cumulative sums of squares algorithm (Inclan and Tiao, 1994). The ICSS algorithm can detect regime shifts in the volatility of the interest rate changes. A general model allows for...