Oil shocks and stock return volatility

Stock Return Volatility and Capital Structure Decisions∗

We comprehensively examine the effects of stock return volatility on firms’ financial and investment decisions. Consistent with theories of investment with financing frictions, firms with high volatility actively reduce their leverage, cut investment, increase cash holding, cut non-cash current assets such as inventories and account receivables, and cut dividend. The effects of volatility are s...

Information Systems and Stock Return Volatility

Measuring Information Systems (IS) value has been constantly attracting much attention and debate within the IS research community. Since information systems effects are often difficult to quantify, traditional payoff evaluation methods often yield conflicting results. In this paper we suggest that some information systems can be evaluated on the basis of their effect on stock return volatility...

R&D, Patents and Stock Return Volatility

Stock Return Volatility in Emerging Markets

This paper presents an empirical analysis of volatility and contagion across 19 emerging and developed stock markets in the 1990s. First, using an efficient estimate of unconditional stock return volatility we show that contemporaneous return and volatility correlation across stock markets have increased substantially in the 1990s. Second, using simple rolling regressions and goodness of fit me...

Empirical Study on Stock Return Volatility in China's Stock Market

Wave of financial globalization and financial innovation has brought great changes of the international financial market, the traditional measuring method is not well adapt to these new changes, this requires the presence of the new analysis method. This article will link function to copulas connect theory is introduced into the financial analysis. In this paper, the author makes an empirical a...