China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …

-parametric regression approach to next-day volatility forecasting. A second finding is that the GARCH(1,1) model severely over-estimated the … unconditional variance leads to poor volatility forecasts during the period under discussion with the MSE of GARCH(1,1) 1-year ahead … volatility more than 4 times bigger than the MSE of a forecast based on historical volatility. We test and reject the hypothesis …

, using a bivariate SWARCH model to show the dependence of the high and low volatility states of the IT.CAC on the NASDAQ-100 …, with no intermediate simultaneous high-low volatility states. …

modeling this market’s high volatility to prevent against crises.The strong linkage of the American and European New Technology …

financial instruments in the portfolio and on the volatility of those returns.This task is relatively simple if the correlations … and volatilities do not change over time.But in reality both volatility and stock market indexes’ correlations do change …

by commodity price volatility, but not attempt to control commodity prices. The cost of the CPI scheme is estimated by …