This paper empirically investigates whether there is an evolution in the relation between stock market trading volume and volatility in 23 developed and 15 emerging markets. To answer this question, we develop a dynamic application of the TARCH (1, 1) model and first prove that the relationship...

This study investigates the effect of sporting performances on the volatility of listed football clubs. The theoretical background is based on the importance of intangible assets in the football industry and the difficulty in evaluating them. The empirical analysis is based on the family of...

Most asset returns exhibit high volatility and its persistence. Heuristically, this paper focuses on the role of surprising information in high volatility processes and indicates that dismissing surprising information may lead to considerable loss in forecast accuracy. In response, this paper...

We develop a model of the daily return-volume relationship which incorporates information and liquidity shocks. First, we distinguish between two trading strategies, information-based and liquidity-based trading and suggest that their respective impacts on returns and volume should be modeled...

Trading volume and the number of trades are both used as proxies for market activity, with disagreement as to which is the better proxy for market activity. This paper investigates this issue using high frequency data for Cisco and Intel in 1997. A number of econometric methods are used,...

In this paper, two tests for weak exogeneity in the econometric modelling of financial point processes are proposed. They are motivated by the common practice in many econometric studies of tick-by-tick data of making inference on the joint density of durations and marks through the conditional...