We propose to estimate the variance of a time series of financial returns through a quantile autoregressive model (QAR) and demonstrate that the return QAR model contains all information that is commonly captured in two separate equations for the mean and variance of a GARCH-type model. In...

This paper analyses the impact of the June 23, 2016 Brexit vote on the British and Australian currency and equity markets. The two markets are particularly interesting as they were both strongly impacted by the Brexit vote, have cross-listed stocks and non-overlapping trading hours. Whilst the...

Most of the empirical applications of the stochatic volatility (SV) model are based on the assumption that the conditional distribution of returns given the latent volatility process is normal. In this paper the SV model based on a conditional normal distribution is compa-red with SV...