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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,415 Views
13 Pages

6 December 2023

Cryptocurrencies have increasingly attracted the attention of several players interested in crypto assets. Their rapid growth and dynamic nature require robust methods for modeling their volatility. The Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,037 Views
26 Pages

To describe the stylized features of volatility comprehensively, this paper embeds the time-varying leverage effect of volatility into the Realized Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (RG) model and proposes a new volatility mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,305 Views
32 Pages

12 December 2023

In this paper, we conducted an empirical investigation of the realized volatility of cryptocurrencies using an econometric approach. This work’s two main characteristics are: (i) the realized volatility to be forecast filters jumps, and (ii) th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
27 Pages

Financial time-series data often exhibit statistically significant skewness and heavy tails, and numerous flexible distributions have been proposed to model them. In the context of the Log-linear Realized GARCH model with Skew-t (ST) distributions, o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,413 Views
21 Pages

In a stage of more and more complex and high-frequency financial markets, the volatility analysis is a cornerstone of modern financial econometrics with practical applications in portfolio optimization, derivative pricing, and systematic risk assessm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,223 Views
17 Pages

This paper investigates the benefits of jointly using several realized measures in predicting daily price volatility, Value-at-Risk, and Expected Shortfall in the Australian electricity markets of New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. We propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,714 Views
23 Pages

Improving Many Volatility Forecasts Using Cross-Sectional Volatility Clusters

  • Pietro Coretto,
  • Michele La Rocca and
  • Giuseppe Storti

The inhomogeneity of the cross-sectional distribution of realized assets’ volatility is explored and used to build a novel class of GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) models. The inhomogeneity of the cross-section...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,153 Views
15 Pages

Bivariate Volatility Modeling with High-Frequency Data

  • Marius Matei,
  • Xari Rovira and
  • Núria Agell

We propose a methodology to include night volatility estimates in the day volatility modeling problem with high-frequency data in a realized generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) framework, which takes advantage of the nat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
651 Views
17 Pages

3 October 2025

If intraday price data are unavailable, then using daily returns to construct realized measures of the variances of lower-frequency returns is a natural substitute for using high-frequency returns in this context. Notably, a suitable application of t...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,381 Views
3 Pages

Financial Time Series: Methods and Models

  • Massimiliano Caporin and
  • Giuseppe Storti

The statistical analysis of financial time series is a rich and diversified research field whose inherent complexity requires an interdisciplinary approach, gathering together several disciplines, such as statistics, economics, and computational scie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,932 Views
24 Pages

Copula–Based vMEM Specifications versus Alternatives: The Case of Trading Activity

  • Fabrizio Cipollini,
  • Robert F. Engle and
  • Giampiero M. Gallo

We discuss several multivariate extensions of the Multiplicative Error Model to take into account dynamic interdependence and contemporaneously correlated innovations (vector MEM or vMEM). We suggest copula functions to link Gamma marginals of the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,369 Views
25 Pages

Heterogeneous Responses of Energy and Non-Energy Assets to Crises in Commodity Markets

  • Dimitrios Vortelinos,
  • Angeliki Menegaki,
  • Ioannis Passas,
  • Alexandros Garefalakis and
  • Georgios Viskadouros

31 October 2024

In this study, we investigate the heterogeneity in energy and non-energy commodities by analyzing their four realized moments: returns, realized volatility, realized skewness and realized kurtosis. Utilizing monthly data, we examine two commodity cat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,469 Views
22 Pages

This paper aims to evaluate the forecast capability of electricity markets, categorized by numerous major characteristics such as non-stationarity, nonlinearity, highest volatility, high frequency, mean reversion and multiple seasonality, which give...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,524 Views
12 Pages

16 September 2023

This paper endeavors to enhance the prediction of volatility in financial markets by developing a novel hybrid model that integrates generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,031 Views
17 Pages

We analyze the predictive effect of monthly global, regional, and country-level financial uncertainties on daily gold market volatility using univariate and multivariate GARCH-MIDAS models, with the latter characterized by variable selection. Based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,200 Views
25 Pages

The paper examines the relative performance of Stochastic Volatility (SV) and GARCH(1,1) models fitted to twenty plus years of daily data for three indices. As a benchmark, I use the realized volatility (RV) for the S&P 500, DOW JONES and STOXX50...

  • Article
  • Open Access
838 Views
38 Pages

Volatility forecasting plays a crucial role in financial markets, portfolio management, and risk control. Classical econometric models such as GARCH, ARIMA, and HAR-RV are widely used but face limitations in capturing the nonlinear and regime-depende...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,686 Views
25 Pages

The original contribution of this paper is to empirically document the contagion of the Covid-19 on financial markets. We merge databases from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Center, Oxford-Man Institute Realized Library, NYU Volatility Lab, and St-Louis F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,765 Views
25 Pages

Volatility Timing: Pricing Barrier Options on DAX XETRA Index

  • Carlos Esparcia,
  • Elena Ibañez and
  • Francisco Jareño

This paper analyses the impact of different volatility structures on a range of traditional option pricing models for the valuation of call down and out style barrier options. The construction of a Risk-Neutral Probability Term Structure (RNPTS) is o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,342 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2022

The time series movements of Bitcoin prices are commonly characterized as highly nonlinear and volatile in nature across economic periods, when compared to the characteristics of traditional asset classes, such as equities and commodities. From a ris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
190 Citations
33,532 Views
12 Pages

We use the GARCH-MIDAS model to extract the long- and short-term volatility components of cryptocurrencies. As potential drivers of Bitcoin volatility, we consider measures of volatility and risk in the US stock market as well as a measure of global...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,552 Views
52 Pages

This study rigorously investigates the impact of COVID-19 on Tunisian stock market volatility. The investigation spans from January 2020 to December 2022, employing a GJR-GARCH model, bias-corrected wavelet analysis, and an ARDL approach. Specific va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,009 Views
20 Pages

1 February 2020

The paper examines the relative performance of Stochastic Volatility (SV) and Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) (1,1) models fitted to ten years of daily data for FTSE. As a benchmark, we used the realized volatility (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,479 Views
33 Pages

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are widely used for non-linear filtering purposes. However, the SMC scope encompasses wider applications such as estimating static model parameters so much that it is becoming a serious alternative to Markov-Chain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,812 Views
17 Pages

5 February 2021

The existing index system for volatility forecasting only focuses on asset return series or historical volatility, and the prediction model cannot effectively describe the highly complex and nonlinear characteristics of the stock market. In this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,973 Views
26 Pages

Mean-Value-at-Risk Portfolio Optimization Based on Risk Tolerance Preferences and Asymmetric Volatility

  • Yuyun Hidayat,
  • Titi Purwandari,
  • Sukono,
  • Igif Gimin Prihanto,
  • Rizki Apriva Hidayana and
  • Riza Andrian Ibrahim

24 November 2023

Investors generally aim to obtain a high return from their stock portfolio. However, investors must realize that a high value-at-risk (VaR) is essential to calculate for this aim. One of the objects in the VaR calculation is the asymmetric return vol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,199 Views
23 Pages

12 January 2024

For vehicle positioning applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), lane-level or even more precise localization is desired in some typical urban scenarios. With the rapid development of wireless positioning technologies, ultrawide band...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,417 Views
16 Pages

1 February 2021

Under the impact of both increasing credit pressure and low economic returns characterizing developed countries, investment levels have decreased over recent years. Moreover, the recent turbulence caused by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the lat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,671 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2023

The allocation of pension funds has important theoretical value and practical significance, which improves the level of pension investment income, achieves the maintenance and appreciation of pension funds, and resolves the pension payment risk cause...