This study examines the regime shifts in volatility in the stock markets of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries by employing the iterated cumulative sum of squares generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ICSSGARCH) model. Using the weekly data over the period 2003-2010,...

In this study, we have investigated GCC stock market volatilities exploiting a number of asymmetric models (EGARCH, ICSS-EGARCH, GJR-GARCH, and ICSS-GJR-GARCH).This paper uses the weekly data over the period 2003-2010. The ICSS-EGARCH and ICSS-GJR-GARCH models take into account the discrete...

This paper investigates the asymmetry and long-memory volatility behavior of the Malaysian Stock Exchange daily data over a period of 1991–2005. The long-spanning data set enable us to examine piecewise before, during and after the economic crisis encountered in the Malaysian stock market. The...