Abstract:Understanding the behavior of market volatility is crucial for asset pricing, portfolio selection, risk management, and trading strategies. The standard Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model assumes that there is no shift in variance, hence its inability to produce a good estimate of volatility persistence. Thus, this research paper re-examines volatility persistence as well as the sudden changes in variance for some major European capital markets-French CAC 40, German DAX 30,… Show more
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