We propose a method for defining and measuring the spatial contagion between two financial markets. Next we investigate which from the large family of multivariate GARCH models is the best tool for modeling spatial contagion.

This paper proposes volatility and spectral based methods for cluster analysis of stock returns. Using the information about both the estimated parameters in the threshold GARCH (or TGARCH) equation and the periodogram of the squared returns, we compute a distance matrix for the stock returns. Clusters are formed by looking to the hierarchical structure tree (or dendrogram) and the computed pri...

We study portfolio optimization of four major cryptocurrencies. Our time series model is a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) with multivariate normal tempered stable (MNTS) distributed residuals used to capture the non-Gaussian cryptocurrency return dynamics. Based on model, we optimize in terms Foster-Hart risk. Those sophisticated techniques are not yet documen...

This paper comments on the multivariate GARCH modeling of federal funds and the 3-month Treasury bill rate by Kyrtsou and Vorlow. 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G0; C4

This paper stresses the importance of assessing the risk-return trade-off faced by environmental industries in financial markets. One of the most widely-used theoretical models in finance is the conditional CAPM, which describes the conditional risk-return tradeoff in financial markets, whereby both the conditional mean return and conditional beta risk are allowed to vary over time. This paper ...

Time varying correlations are often estimated with Multivariate Garch models that are linear in squares and cross products of the data. A new class of multivariate models called dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) models is proposed. These have the flexibility of univariate GARCH models coupled with parsimonious parametric models for the correlations. They are not linear but can often be esti...

We introduce a new stochastic process called the generalised Wishart process (GWP). It is a collection of positive semi-definite random matrices indexed by any arbitrary input variable. We use this process as a prior over dynamic (e.g. time varying) covariance matrices Σ(t). The GWP captures a diverse class of covariance dynamics, naturally handles missing data, scales nicely with dimension, ha...

Modeling financial volatility is an important part of empirical finance. This paper provides a literature review of the most relevant volatility models, with a particular focus on forecasting models. We firstly discuss the empirical foundations of different kinds of volatility. The paper, then, analyses the non-parametric measure of volatility, named realized variance, and its empirical applica...

Using a multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH-M) model, we investigate volatility spillovers in six Southeast Asian stock markets around the time of the 1997 Asian crisis. We focus on interactions with the U.S. market as a world financial market, and with the Japanese market as a regional financial market. We also use bivariate GARCH-M models to examine t...

Modeling the dependency between stock market returns is a difficult task when returns follow a complicated dynamics. It is not easy to specify the multivariate distribution relating two or more return series. In this paper, a methodology based on fitting ARIMA, GARCH and ARMA-GARCH models and copula functions is applied. In such methodology, the dependency parameter can easily be rendered condi...