The introduction of single stock futures to a market presents the opportunity to assess an individualcompany's response to futures trading directly, in contrast to the market-wide impact obtainedfrom index futures studies. Thirty-eight South African companies were evaluated in terms of apossible...

This paper examines mean reversion processes in volatility structure of stock markets after extremely high or low stock returns. The stock market volatility is reflected in three aspects, overall volatility, volatility momentum, and volatility concentration, and they are measured by three basic...