Macroeconomic Volatility and Stock Market Volatility, World-Wide

35 Pages Posted: 25 Aug 2008

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Francis X. Diebold

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Kamil Yilmaz

Koc University

Date Written: August 25, 2008

Abstract

Notwithstanding its impressive contributions to empirical financial economics, there remains a significant gap in the volatility literature, namely its relative neglect of the connection between macroeconomic fundamentals and asset return volatility. We progress by analyzing a broad international cross section of stock markets covering approximately forty countries. We find a clear link between macroeconomic fundamentals and stock market volatilities, with volatile fundamentals translating into volatile stock markets.

Keywords: Financial market, equity market, asset return, risk, variance, asset pricing

JEL Classification: G1, E0

Suggested Citation

Diebold, Francis X. and Yilmaz, Kamil, Macroeconomic Volatility and Stock Market Volatility, World-Wide (August 25, 2008). PIER Working Paper No. 08-031, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1254822 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1254822

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