In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy … 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited signs of volatility, owing to the breakdown in interbank market … activity. The determinants of this volatility are assessed using Stochastic Volatility models to gauge the role played by …

estimation of a VAR-GARCH model. The results can be summarized as follows. Negative news have significant positive effects on … reaction has increased during the recent financial crisis. News volatility has a significant impact on yield spread volatility …

-2013. The econometric analysis is based on the estimation of a VAR-GARCH-in-mean model. The results can be summarised as follows …. Positive (negative) news have significant positive (negative) effects on stock returns in all cases. Their volatility has a … significant impact on both stock returns and volatility; specifically, an increase in news volatility is always associated with a …

Gold and Silver. Volatility spillovers are bigger in size and affect most commodity returns. Both first and second moment … financial assets, are sensitive to macro news (especially their volatility), and also suggest that the global financial crisis …

, testimonies, and FOMC meetings (STF's) - and volatility in the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond futures market. Using high … volatility, that this impact depends on the transmission of information (rather than just noise), and that this information …

news and communication along with the estimated exchange rate misalignment on exchange rate as well as its volatility …