Forecasting Exchange Rate Realized Volatility Through Decomposition Using High-Frequency Data

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rim mname Lamouchi ◽  
Russell mname Davidson ◽  
Ibrahim mname Fatnassi ◽  
Abderazak Ben mname Maatoug
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Realized Volatility ◽  
High Frequency Data ◽  
Frequency Data

scholarly journals Keynes and the dollar in 1933: the gold-buying program and exchange rate gyrations

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
High Frequency Data ◽  
Frequency Data ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
The Ideal

In December 1933, John Maynard Keyes published an open letter to President Roosevelt, where he wrote: ‘The recent gyrations of the dollar have looked to me more like a gold standard on the booze than the ideal managed currency of my dreams.’ This was a criticism of the ‘gold-buying program’ launched in October 1933. In this article I use high-frequency data on the dollar–pound and dollar–franc exchange rates to investigate whether the gyrations of the dollar were unusually high in late 1933. My results show that although volatility was pronounced, it was not higher than during some other periods after 1921. Moreover, dollar volatility began to subside towards the end of the period alluded to by Keynes.

scholarly journals Modelando e Prevendo a Volatilidade dos Retornos de Ativos Brasileiros: uma Abordagem da Variância Realizada

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Marcelo C. Carvalho ◽  
Marco Aurélio S. Freire ◽  
Marcelo Cunha Medeiros ◽  
Leonardo R. Souza
Keyword(s):  
Long Memory ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Realized Volatility ◽  
High Frequency Data ◽  
Garch Models ◽  
Frequency Data ◽  
Normality Assumption ◽  
Out Of Sample ◽  
Management Area

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, using five of the most actively traded stocks in the Brazilian financial market, this paper shows that the normality assumption commonly used in the risk management area to describe the distributions of returns standardized by volatilities is not compatible with volatilities estimated by EWMA or GARCH models. In sharp contrast, when the information contained in high frequency data is used to construct the realized volatility measures, we attain the normality of the standardized returns, giving promise of improvements in Value-at-Risk statistics. We also describe the distributions of volatilities of the Brazilian stocks, showing that they are nearly lognormal. Second, we estimate a simple model of the log of realized volatilities that differs from the ones in other studies. The main difference is that we do not find evidence of long memory. The estimated model is compared with commonly used alternatives in out-of-sample forecasting experiment.

scholarly journals Forecasting the Covolatility of Coffee Arabica and Crude Oil Prices: A Multivariate GARCH Approach with High-Frequency Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Dawit Yeshiwas ◽  
Yebelay Berelie
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Realized Volatility ◽  
Multivariate Garch ◽  
High Frequency Data ◽  
Frequency Data ◽  
Asset Return ◽  
Coffee Arabica ◽  
Forecasting Performance ◽  
Intraday Data

Forecasting the covolatility of asset return series is becoming the subject of extensive research among academics, practitioners, and portfolio managers. This paper estimates a variety of multivariate GARCH models using weekly closing price (in USD/barrel) of Brent crude oil and weekly closing prices (in USD/pound) of Coffee Arabica and compares the forecasting performance of these models based on high-frequency intraday data which allows for a more precise realized volatility measurement. The study used weekly price data to explicitly model covolatility and employed high-frequency intraday data to assess model forecasting performance. The analysis points to the conclusion that the varying conditional correlation (VCC) model with Student’s t distributed innovation terms is the most accurate volatility forecasting model in the context of our empirical setting. We recommend and encourage future researchers studying the forecasting performance of MGARCH models to pay particular attention to the measurement of realized volatility and employ high-frequency data whenever feasible.

scholarly journals Realized Measures to Explain Volatility Changes over Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Christos Floros ◽  
Konstantinos Gkillas ◽  
Christoforos Konstantatos ◽  
Athanasios Tsagkanos
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Realized Volatility ◽  
High Frequency Data ◽  
Leverage Effect ◽  
Frequency Data ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Volatility Feedback ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

We studied (i) the volatility feedback effect, defined as the relationship between contemporaneous returns and the market-based volatility, and (ii) the leverage effect, defined as the relationship between lagged returns and the current market-based volatility. For our analysis, we used daily measures of volatility estimated from high frequency data to explain volatility changes over time for both the S&P500 and FTSE100 indices. The period of analysis spanned from January 2000 to June 2017 incorporating various market phases, such as booms and crashes. Based on the estimated regressions, we found evidence that the returns of S&P500 and FTSE100 indices were well explained by a specific group of realized measure estimators, and the returns negatively affected realized volatility. These results are highly recommended to financial analysts dealing with high frequency data and volatility modelling.

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