Essays about: "Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity.
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1. The Sensitivity of Banks' Stock Returns to the interest rate risk and exchange rate risk: A Case Study of Germany and South Africa
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this paper is to interrogate the single and joint effect interest and exchange rate movements have on banks’ stock returns. This study also aims to compare the volatility of the banks’ stock returns for countries in different markets using both the short and long-term interest rate and the respective exchange rates. READ MORE
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2. Business analytics tools for data collection and analysis of COVID-19
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statistik och maskininlärningAbstract : The pandemic that struck the entire world 2020 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, will have an enormous interest for statistical and economical analytics for a long time. While the pandemic of 2020 is not the first that struck the entire world, it is the first pandemic in history where the data were gathered to this extent. READ MORE
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3. Performance of alternative option pricing models during spikes in the FTSE 100 volatility index : Empirical evidence from FTSE100 index options
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingAbstract : Derivatives have a large and significant role on the financial markets today and the popularity of options has increased. This has also increased the demand of finding a suitable option pricing model, since the ground-breaking model developed by Black & Scholes (1973) have poor pricing performance. READ MORE
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4. The relationship between carry trade currencies and equity markets, during the 2003-2012 time period
University essay from FöretagsekonomiAbstract : One of the most popular investment and trading strategies over the last decade, has been the currency carry trade, which allows traders and investors to buy high-yielding currencies in the Foreign Exchange spot market by borrowing, low or zero interest rate currencies in the form of pairs, such as the Australian Dollar/Japanese Yen (AUD/JPY), with the purpose of investing the proceeds afterwards into fixed-income securities.To be able to determine the causality between the returns of equity markets and the foreign exchange market, we choose to observe the sensitivity and influence of two equity indexes on several pairs involved in carry trading. READ MORE
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5. Forecasting exchage rates using machine learning models with time-varying volatility
University essay from StatistikAbstract : This thesis is focused on investigating the predictability of exchange rate returns on monthly and daily frequency using models that have been mostly developed in the machine learning field. The forecasting performance of these models will be compared to the Random Walk, which is the benchmark model for financial returns, and the popular autoregressive process. READ MORE
