The present study focused on one of the important South Asian nations-Sri Lanka-to examine the role of idiosyncratic volatility in asset prices. A four-factor model with idiosyncratic volatility was designed for capturing the market, size, value and idiosyncratic risk yields better than Fama and...

The volatility of exchange rates is of high importance, because it affects decisions of market participants. The choice of the exchange rate arrangement affects the volatility of the exchange rate: higher flexibility goes ahead with increasing volatility and vice versa. We investigate the...

The choice of an exchange rate arrangement affects the volatility of the exchange rate: higher flexibility goes ahead with increasing volatility and vice versa (Flood and Rose 1995, 1999). We investigate the exchange rate volatility of six Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) between...

Main description: Der Autor untersucht, ob sich im Zeitablauf trendmäßige Entwicklungen, insbesondere ein signifikanter Anstieg der Wechselkursvolatilität feststellen lassen, und wieweit diese durch das gewählte Wechselkursregime beeinflusst werden. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Arbeiten liegt...