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This paper investigates the response of US stock market uncertainty to monetary policy of the Federal Reserve Bank. It can be shown that monetary policy significantly Granger-causes stock market confidence. By using monthly closing prices of the V IX as a stock market uncertainty proxy and a...
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This paper deals with the economics of Bitcoins in two ways. First, it broadens the discussion on how to capture Bitcoins using economic terms. Center stage in this analysis take the discussion of some unique characteristics of this market as well as the comparison of Bitcoins and gold. Second,...
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The scaling properties of two alternative fractal models recently proposed to characterize the dynamics of stock market prices are compared. The former is the Multifractal Model of Asset Return (MMAR) introduced in 1997 by Mandelbrot, Calvet and Fisher in three companion papers. The latter is...
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Detecting structural changes in volatility is important for understanding volatility dynamics and stylized facts … observed for financial returns such as volatility persistence. We propose modified CUSUM and LM tests that are built on a …
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Recent work finds evidence that the volatility of the U.S. economy fell dramatically around the first quarter of 1984 … understand its root cause. We find that the interest rate sensitive sectors generally experience a much earlier volatility …
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comovements and the other volatility-induced return comovements. Following Baker and Wurglur (2006), we construct an investor … market volatility. We find that a correlated trading behaviour along with investor sentiment significantly determines excess … stock returns. Also stocks with high volatility exhibit higher return comovement properties compared to low volatilie stocks …
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The research was conducted in order to study the volatility in gold price returns and its investigation. The data has … results investigate volatility. Econometrically speaking, an unequal spread of residuals is referred as heteroskedasticity. In … was concluded that there has been volatility in gold prices …
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Vietnam launched its first-ever stock market, named as Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center (HSTC) on July 20, 2000. This is one of pioneering works on HSTC, which finds empirical evidences for the following: 1. Anomalies of the HSTC stock returns through clusters of limit-hits, limit-hit...
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model to the historical ISE-100 return data indicates that the return volatility reacts to bad news 24% more than they react …We compare more than 1000 different volatility models in terms of their fit to the historical ISE-100 Index data and … for modeling the ISE-100 return volatility. The t-distribution seems to characterize the distribution of the heavy tailed …
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-)efficiency, volatility clustering and predictive regressions in economic and financial markets using traditional approaches that appeal to …-)efficiency, volatility clustering and nonlinear dependence based on (small) powers of absolute returns and their signed versions. The paper …-)efficiency, volatility clustering, nonlinear dependence, and other areas …
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