Download or read book Modelling Return and Volatility Exposures in Global Stock Markets written by Robert W. Faff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article empirically investigates the exposure of country-level conditional stock return volatilities to conditional global stock return volatility. It extends the results found in the quot;volatility spilloverquot; literature by providing evidence that conditional stock market return volatilities have a contemporaneous and systematic exposure to global return volatilities. Whereas all the countries included in the study exhibited significant and positive systematic exposures to global volatility, emerging market volatility exposures were considerably higher than developed market exposures.

Download or read book Global Stock Markets written by Wolfgang Drobetz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Drobetz provides empirical evidence on the time variation of expected stock returns over the stages of the business cycle.

Download or read book A Latent Factor Model with Global Country and Industry Shocks for International Stock Returns written by Mr.Marco Del Negro and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We estimate a latent factor model that decomposes international stock returns into global, country-, and industry-specific shocks and allows for stock-specific exposures to these shocks. We find that across stocks there is substantial dispersion in these exposures, which is partly explained by the extent to which firms operate across countries. We show that portfolios consisting of stocks with low exposures to country shocks achieve substantial variance reduction relative to the global market, both in- and out-of-sample. The shock exposures are thus a stock-selection device for international portfolio diversification.

Download or read book Empirical Studies on Volatility in International Stock Markets written by Eugenie M.J.H. Hol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical Studies on Volatility in International Stock Markets describes the existing techniques for the measurement and estimation of volatility in international stock markets with emphasis on the SV model and its empirical application. Eugenie Hol develops various extensions of the SV model, which allow for additional variables in both the mean and the variance equation. In addition, the forecasting performance of SV models is compared not only to that of the well-established GARCH model but also to implied volatility and so-called realised volatility models which are based on intraday volatility measures. The intended readers are financial professionals who seek to obtain more accurate volatility forecasts and wish to gain insight about state-of-the-art volatility modelling techniques and their empirical value, and academic researchers and students who are interested in financial market volatility and want to obtain an updated overview of the various methods available in this area.

Download or read book Portfolio Risk Analysis written by Gregory Connor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portfolio risk forecasting has been and continues to be an active research field for both academics and practitioners. Almost all institutional investment management firms use quantitative models for their portfolio forecasting, and researchers have explored models' econometric foundations, relative performance, and implications for capital market behavior and asset pricing equilibrium. Portfolio Risk Analysis provides an insightful and thorough overview of financial risk modeling, with an emphasis on practical applications, empirical reality, and historical perspective. Beginning with mean-variance analysis and the capital asset pricing model, the authors give a comprehensive and detailed account of factor models, which are the key to successful risk analysis in every economic climate. Topics range from the relative merits of fundamental, statistical, and macroeconomic models, to GARCH and other time series models, to the properties of the VIX volatility index. The book covers both mainstream and alternative asset classes, and includes in-depth treatments of model integration and evaluation. Credit and liquidity risk and the uncertainty of extreme events are examined in an intuitive and rigorous way. An extensive literature review accompanies each topic. The authors complement basic modeling techniques with references to applications, empirical studies, and advanced mathematical texts. This book is essential for financial practitioners, researchers, scholars, and students who want to understand the nature of financial markets or work toward improving them.

Download or read book Modelling and Forecasting the Volatility of Thin Emerging Stock Markets written by Plamen Patev and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Portfolio Theory associates the stock market risk with volatility of the return. Volatility is measured by the variance of return but the investment community does not accepted this measure, since it weighs equally the deviations of the average return, while most investors determine the risk on the basis of small or negative returns. In the last few years the measure Value at Risk (VaR) has established itself in the practice. The issue about modelling and forecasting thin emerging stock markets risk is still open. The subject of the paper is the risk of the Bulgarian stock market. The aim of the paper is to give the investment community a model for assessment and forecasting of the Bulgarian stock market risk. The results of the research show that the SOFIX index has basic characteristics of most of the emerging stock markets, namely: high risk, significant autocorrelation, non-normality, volatility clustering. Three models have applied - RiskMetrics, EWMA with t distributed innovations and EWMA with GED distributed innovations. The EWMA with t distributed innovations and EWMA with GED distributed innovations adequately evaluate the risk of the Bulgarian stock market.

Download or read book The Risk Modeling Evaluation Handbook Rethinking Financial Risk Management Methodologies in the Global Capital Markets written by Greg N. Gregoriou and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses newly exposed weaknesses of financial risk models in the context of market stress scenarios This will be the definitive book for readers looking to improve their approach to modeling financial risk

Download or read book Returns and Volatility Asymmetries in Global Stock Markets written by Thomas Chinan Chiang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the hypothesis that both stock returns and volatility are asymmetrical functions of past information derived from domestic and US stock market news. By employing a double-threshold regression GARCH model to investigate four major index return series, we find significant evidence to sustain the asymmetrical hypothesis of stock returns. Specifically, evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that stock index returns are positively correlated with a composite of stock return news, which is obtained by a weighted average of the lagged domestic and US stock index returns. Moreover, we find that negative news will cause a larger decline in a national stock return than will an equal magnitude of good news. This also holds true for the conditional variance. The variance appears to be more volatile and persistent when bad news hits the market than when good news does. Consistent with existing literature, asymmetries in stock returns are not independent of asymmetries in volatility since a larger adjustment in stock prices to bad news is likely to cause domestic investors to change the debt-equity ratio, leading to higher volatility in stock market.

Download or read book Sign and Volatility switching ARCH Models written by Fabio Fornari and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Portfolio Investment Flows to Emerging Markets written by Sudarshan Gooptu and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geopolitical Risk on Stock Returns Evidence from Inter Korea Geopolitics written by Seungho Jung and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate how corporate stock returns respond to geopolitical risk in the case of South Korea, which has experienced large and unpredictable geopolitical swings that originate from North Korea. To do so, a monthly index of geopolitical risk from North Korea (the GPRNK index) is constructed using automated keyword searches in South Korean media. The GPRNK index, designed to capture both upside and downside risk, corroborates that geopolitical risk sharply increases with the occurrence of nuclear tests, missile launches, or military confrontations, and decreases significantly around the times of summit meetings or multilateral talks. Using firm-level data, we find that heightened geopolitical risk reduces stock returns, and that the reductions in stock returns are greater especially for large firms, firms with a higher share of domestic investors, and for firms with a higher ratio of fixed assets to total assets. These results suggest that international portfolio diversification and investment irreversibility are important channels through which geopolitical risk affects stock returns.

Download or read book International Financial Markets written by J. Orlin Grabbe and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide readers with a solid framework for exploring financial markets as markets, this best-selling book dellineates the basic rules of the game in each of the three major international financial markets: foreign exchange, eurocurrencies, and international bonds, and conveys an intuitive feel for market dynamics. KEY TOPICS: Blends theory and institutional accounts. Considers the interbank market in foreign exchange. Explains how to hedge with FX forwards, futures, and options. A new chapter explores aspects of the European Monetary System in two separate discussions: historical background and general features; and the technical details of the Exchange Rate Mechanism. For readers interested in International Financial Markets. The previous edition ISBN is 0-13-500612-0.

Download or read book Modelling Return and Volatility in Emerging Stock Markets written by Dimitris Kenourgios and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies stock market time varying performance in a Markov environment between four emerging Balkan stock markets, namely, Turkey, Romania Croatia and Bulgaria, and two developed markets, the U.S. and Greece. We employ: a) an exogenous Markov regime-switching methodology where the time variation of returns is modeled to capture short term dynamics; b) a Markov switching vector autoregression methodology to model jumps in volatility regimes. Our findings provide evidence on time varying return dependence and volatility regime linkages between Balkan and developed stock markets.

Download or read book Switching Volatility in International Equity Markets written by Raul Susmel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we analyze the behavior of time-varying volatility, when structural changes are allowed in international stock markets. We use a recent model developed by Hamilton and Susmel (1994), the SWARCH model, which is a more general specification than the popular ARCH model. We fit an exponential SWARCH (E-SWARCH) model to eight series of weekly returns from international stock markets. Under the SWARCH model, we find that ARCH and asymmetric effects are significantly reduced. We also find, however, that when compared to a standard GARCH-t model, the benefits of a SWARCH model are marginal. Using the ability of the Hamilton (1989) filter to date states, we use the switching model to date volatility states. We compare these states and conclude that with the exception of Japan and the U.K., and the U.S. and Canada, the domestic volatility states tend to be independent of foreign volatility states. For these two pairs, we find evidence for common volatility states.

Download or read book Volatility Modeling and Forecasting for NIFTY Stock Returns written by Gurmeet Singh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, an attempt has been made to model the volatility of NIFTY index of National Stock Exchange (NSE) and forecast the NIFTY stock returns for short term by using daily data ranging from January, 2000, to December, 2014, which comprises 3736 data points for the analysis by using Box-Jenkins or ARIMA model. The volatility in the Indian stock market exhibits characteristics similar to those found earlier in many of the major developed and emerging stock markets. It is shown that ARCH family models outperform the conventional OLS models. ADF test and unit root testing is done to know the stationarity of the series, later the AR(p) and MA(q) orders are identified with the help of minimum information criterion as suggested by Hannan-Rissanen. As per the analysis, ARIMA (1,0,1) model was found to be the best fit to forecast the volatility of NIFTY stock returns. The model can be used by the investors to forecast the short run NIFTY stock returns and for making more profitable and less risky investments decision.

Download or read book Asymmetric Effects of Return and Volatility on Correlation between International Equity Markets written by Abderrahim Taamouti and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the correlation between equity returns behaves during market turmoils has been an issue of discussion in the international finance literature. Some research suggest an increase of correlation during volatile periods [Ang and Bekaert, 2002], while others argue its stability [Forbes and Rigobon, 2002]. In this paper, we study the impact of returns and volatility on correlation between international equity markets. Our objective is to determine if there is any asymmetry in correlation and identify the main explanation for this asymmetry. Within a framework of autoregressive models we quantify the relationship between return, volatility, and correlation using the generalized impulse response function and we test for the asymmetries in the return-correlation and volatility-correlation relationships. We also examine the implications of these asymmetric effects for the optimal international portfolio. Empirical evidence using weekly data on US, Canada, UK, and France equity indices, show that without taking into account the effect of return, there is an asymmetric impact of volatility on correlation. The volatility seems to have more impact on correlation during market upturn periods than during downturn periods. However, once we introduce the effect of return, the asymmetric impact of volatility on correlation disappears. These observations suggest that, the relation between volatility and correlation is an association rather than a causality. The strong increase in the correlation is driven by the market direction and the level of return rather than the level of the volatility. These results are confirmed using some tests of the asymmetry in volatility-correlation and return-correlation relationships in separate models and then in a joint model. Finally, we find that taking into account the asymmetric effect of return on correlation leads to an average financial gain ranged between 3.35 and 37.25 basis points for optimal international diversification.

Download or read book Modelling the Intraday Return of Volatility Process in the Australian Equity Market written by Andrew Worthington and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The data set employed consists of five-minute returns, trading volumes at bid-ask spreads over the period 31 December 2002 to 4 March 2003 for the fifty national and multinational stocks comprising the S&P/ASX 50 index." --p. 1.