In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the ability of Markov-switching multifractal (MSM), implied, GARCH, and historical volatilities to predict realized volatility for both the S&P 100 index and equity options. Some important findings are as follows. First, we find that the ability of...

Empirical techniques to assess market comovements are numerous from cointegration to dynamic conditional correlations. This paper uses the fractal properties of asset returns and presents estimations of Markov switching multifractal models [as MSM] to give new insights about short and long run...

During financial crises, interest is strong for analysing market comovements. However, a majority of these analyses is based only on correlations. This article uses Markov switching multifractal models to derive new indicators by considering different horizons for dependency among four stock...