describe the most typical features of capital markets like volatility clustering, excess kurtosis and fat tails. As empirical … evidence shows asymmetry is also a prominent feature of stock market returns volatility. The reaction of risk if stock returns …

from options prices by interpolating the Black-Scholes implied volatility smile. Some of the methods recently proposed use …

)variances of the US Dow Jones and the German stock index DAX, we analyze intra-daily volatility spillovers between the US and …-synchronous and partially overlapping opening hours of the two markets. We find evidence of significant short-term volatility …-term volatility shocks is considerably higher and the spillovers effects between the US and the German stock markets are significantly …

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the …Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and …

This paper looks at the interplay of volatility and liquidity on the Euronext trading platform during the December 2 …-traded stocks on Euronext, we study the ex-ante liquidity vs volatility and ex-post liquidity vs volatility relationships to … ascertain if the high volatility led to decreases in liquidity and large trading costs. We show that the provision of liquidity …

Market analysts and central banks often use the implied volatility of FX options as an indicator of expected exchange … deviate the value of implied volatility from the exchange rate variability expected by the market. These biasing factors are … one month. However, implied volatility provides a biased estimate, and does not encompass the information included in …