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Measuring the Impact Intradaily Events Have on the Persistent Nature of Volatility

In: Wavelet Applications in Economics and Finance

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  • Mark J. Jensen

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

  • Brandon Whitcher

    (Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development)

Abstract

In this chapter we measure the effect a scheduled event, like the opening or closing of a regional foreign exchange market, or a unscheduled act, such as a market crash, a political upheaval, or a surprise news announcement, has on the foreign exchange rate’s level of volatility and its well documented long-memory behavior. Volatility in the foreign exchange rate is modeled as a non-stationary, long-memory, stochastic volatility process whose fractional differencing parameter is allowed to vary over time. This non-stationary model of volatility reveals that long-memory is not a spurious property associated with infrequent structural changes, but is a integral part of the volatility process. Over most of the sample period, volatility exhibits the strong persistence of a long-memory process. It is only after a market surprise or unanticipated economic news announcement that volatility briefly sheds its strong persistence.

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  • Mark J. Jensen & Brandon Whitcher, 2014. "Measuring the Impact Intradaily Events Have on the Persistent Nature of Volatility," Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, in: Marco Gallegati & Willi Semmler (ed.), Wavelet Applications in Economics and Finance, edition 127, pages 103-129, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:dymchp:978-3-319-07061-2_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07061-2_5
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