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  2. 1. Financial Volatility and Time-Varying Risk Premia

    Author : Peter Hördahl; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Monte Carlo methods; Term structure of interest rates; Asymmetric variance; Time-varying risk premia; Volatility forecasting; CAPM; Conditional asset pricing models; Stochastic volatility; Volatility modeling; GARCH; Bond option pricing; Financial science; Finansiering;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four empirical essays, all dealing with return volatility of financial assets and/or time-varying risk premia. In the first essay, Changing Risk Premia: Evidence from a Small Open Economy, the relation between risk and return is investigated for Swedish stocks. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Financial Market Volatility

    Author : Ai Jun HOU; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nonparametric GARCH model; News Impact Curve; Interest rate volatility; MCMC; Markov Switching; Chinese stock markets; EMU stock markets;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the volatility in the equity and short-term interest-rate markets, and the spillover from the short term interest rate market to the equity market. It consists of three papers and focuses on adapting and proposing models for the estimation and forecasting of financial market volatility. READ MORE

  5. 3. Multidimensional Markov-Functional and Stochastic Volatiliy Interest Rate Modelling

    Author : Linus Kajsajunti; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three papers in the area of interest rate derivatives modelling. The pricing and hedging of (exotic) interest rate derivatives is one of the most demanding and complex problems in option pricing theory and is of great practical importance in the market. READ MORE

  6. 4. Time Varying Parameters in Exchange Rate Models

    Author : Richard Henricsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic systems; economic theory; econometrics; Economics; stochastich volatility.; purchasing power parity; GARCH; exchange rates; Stationarity; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers on different aspects of parametervariation in some common exchange rate models.The first paper investigates the stability in the real exchange rate, witch is equivalent to purchasing power parity (PPP). READ MORE

  7. 5. Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Exchange Rate Policy

    Author : Erik Post; Nils Gottfries; Annika Alexius; Kai Leitemo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Social sciences; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Essay 1 (with Annika Alexius) uses a structural VAR model to study the role of floating exchange rates for five "small open economies" with inflation targets. We show that only in Sweden and Canada does the nominal exchange rate behave in a stabilizing way. Most exchange rate movements are responses to non-fundamental shocks. READ MORE