This paper examines jump dynamic patterns in three Chinese medical stocks. It also compares the Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasting performance of a newly proposed realized volatility model allowing for jumps with that of two commonly used realized volatility models, which do not account for jumps. Using the Heterogeneous Autoregressive Realized Volatility model that allows for jumps (HAR-CJN), we ...

The authors study time-variation in the co-movements between daily stock and Treasury bond returns over 1986 to 2000. Their innovation is to examine whether variation in stock-bond return dynamics can be linked to non-return-based measures of stock market uncertainty, specifically the implied volatility (IV) from equity index options and detrended stock turnover (DTVR). The authors investigate ...

Horizon-matched historical volatility is commonly used to forecast future volatility for option valuation under the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 123R. In this paper, we empirically investigate the performance of using historical volatility to forecast long-term stock return volatility in comparison with a number of alternative forecasting methods. Analyzing forecasting errors and...