Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Accurate volatility modelling is paramount for optimal risk management practices. One stylized feature of financial volatility that impacts the modelling process is long memory explored in this paper for alternative risk ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Accurate forecasting of risk is the key to successful risk management techniques.
Using the largest stock index futures from twelve European bourses, this paper
presents VaR measures based on their unconditional and ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
In recent years the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective has
placed heavy emphasis on the analysis of volatility models. This is understandable
given the importance that volatility plays for ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Key to the imposition of appropriate minimum capital requirements on a daily
basis requires accurate volatility estimation. Here, measures are presented based on discrete estimation of aggregated high frequency UK futures ...
Cotter, John; Longin, François(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-06-14)
Both in practice and in the academic literature, models for setting margin requirements in futures markets use daily closing price changes. However, financial markets have recently shown high intraday volatility, which ...
Bredin, Donal; Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-10-12)
We analyse the impact of volatility per se on exports for a a small open economy concentrating on Irish trade with the UK and the US. An important element is that we take account of the time lag between
the trade decision ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Extreme asset price movements have major consequences for an economy’s financial stability and monetary policies. The recent equity price movements associated with financial crises appear to be more pronounced and policy ...
Cotter, John; Stevenson, Simon(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
Using a time-varying approach, this paper examines the dynamics of volatility in the REIT sector. The results highlight the attractiveness and suitability of using GARCH based approaches in the modeling of
daily REIT ...
Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
This paper empirically analyses risk in the Euro relative to other currencies.
Comparisons are made between a sub period encompassing the final transitional stage
to full monetary union with a sub period prior to this. ...
This paper applies extreme value theory to measure downside risk for European equity markets. Two related measures, value at risk and the excess loss probability estimator provide a coherent approach to optimally protect ...