We study measures of foreign exchange rate volatility based on high-frequency (5-minute) $/DM exchange rate returns … using recent nonparametric statistical techniques to compute realized return volatility and its separate continuous sample … implied volatility. We find that implied volatility is an informationally efficient but biased forecast of future realized …

realized volatility. The jump component has very different time series properties than the continuous component, and accounting … for this allows improved forecasting of future realized volatility. We investigate the potential forecasting role of … implied volatility backed out from option prices in the presence of these new separate realized volatility components. We show …

liquid instrument suffers from liquidity shocks that induce periods of increased volatility and significant return …

weakly autocorrelated and confirmed the presence of long memory as well as short memory in the GARCH volatility, (4) used an …

autoregression, we derive return and volatility spillover indices over the rolling sub-sample windows. We show that there is … substantial difference between the behavior of the East Asian return and volatility spillover indices over time. While the return … spillover index reveals increased integration among the East Asian equity markets, the volatility spillover index experiences …

This paper attempts a re-examination of the relationship between the output volatility and economic growth using an … integrated (HFI) and low financially integrated (LFI) country groups. Overall, the results indicate that output volatility as a … proxy of macroeconomic volatility has negative effect on economic growth. The results appear to be stronger when we include …