Long memory in volatility is a stylized fact found in most financial return series. This paper empirically investigates the extent to which interdependence in emerging markets may be driven by conditional short and long range dependence in volatility. We fit copulas to pairs of raw and filtered...

Volatility plays an important role when managing risks, composing portfolios, and pricing financial instruments. However it is not directly observable, being usually estimated through parametric models such as those in the GARCH family. A more natural empirical measure of daily returns...