Asymmetric Analysis of Exchange Rates Volatility: Evidence from Emerging Economy

modeling volatility: evidence from tehran stock exchange

the research problem investigated in this paper is modeling volatility and analyzing risk and return’s relationship in tehran stock exchange using garch-family models including garch(1,1), garch(2,2), egarch(1,1), pgarch(1,1), tgarch(1,1), garch(1,1)-m and cgarch(1,1). using the daily returns of tehran stock exchange companies, we focused on two portfolios of all the companies during a 10-year-...

The Effects of Interest Rates Volatility on Stock Returns: Evidence from Bangladesh

The paper investigates the effects of interest rates on stock market performance by using monthly time series data for the economy of Bangladesh over the period of 1991 to 2012. A wide range of econometric techniques have been employed to analyze the relationship between the interest rate and stock market return. The study reveals a stable and significant long run relationship between the varia...

Volatility in Foreign Exchange Rates

Four foreign exchange spot rate series, recorded on an hourly basis for a six-month period in 1986 are examined. A seasonal GARCH model is developed to describe the time-dependent volatility apparent in the percentage nominal return of each currency. Hourly patterns in volatility are found to be remarkably similar across currencies and appear to be related to the opening and closing of the worl...

Do macro-economic news announcements affect the volatility of foreign exchange rates? Some evidence from Australia

This paper investigates the role of Australian macro-economic announcement news on ® ve major Australian dollar (AUD) exchange rates. Speci® cally, the daily changes of the exchange rates are modelled to ascertain the existence and the nature of the news e€ ects in the conditional mean and variance of the changes. It is found that a higher than expected current account de® cit and unemployment ...

Welfare and excess volatility of exchange rates