Asymmetric conditional volatility in international stock markets

Recent studies show that a negative shock in stock prices will generate more volatility than a positive shock of similar magnitude. The aim of this paper is to appraise the hypothesis under which the conditional mean and the conditional variance of stock returns are asymmetric functions of past info...

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Main Author: Ferreira, N. B. (author)
Other Authors: Menezes, R. (author), Mendes, D. A. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/id/ci-pub-13463
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/13989