We find that monetary policy uncertainty contributes to waves of share repurchases and hence plays a central role in influencing corporate payout policy. In our sample of European buyback transactions, the observed variation of the repurchase likelihood is particularly driven by movements in...

Purpose – The paper aims to analyse the drivers of changes in European equity tail risk. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, the paper uses a panel data model with fixed effects based on five explanatory variables including the VIX, the variance risk premium (VRP), the one-year...

Purpose – The paper aims to model multiple-period market risk forecasts under long memory persistence in market volatility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes volatility forecasts based on a combination of the GARCH(1,1)-model with potentially fat-tailed and skewed innovations...