The growing interest in financial markets microstructure and the fact that financial professionals have access to huge intraday databases have made high-frequency data modelling a hot issue in recent empirical finance literature. We analyse the main issues that are at stake when analysing...

This paper examines the existence of dynamic spillover effects across petroleum based commodities and among spot-futures volatilities, trading volume and open interest. Realized volatilities of spot-futures markets are used as inputs to estimate a VAR model following (Diebold and Yilmaz, 2015,...

We investigate the relation between trading activity in the VIX derivative markets and changes in the VIX index under a high-frequency framework. We find a significant relation between the signed trading variables of VIX futures and the contemporaneous changes in the VIX index. In addition, the...