Volatility Risk and Uncertainty in Financial Markets

Volatility is very much with us in today's equity markets. Day-to-day price swings are often large and intra-day volatility elevated, especially at market openings and closings. What explains this? What does this say about the quality of our markets? Can

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Zicklin School of Business Financial Markets Series Robert A. Schwartz, Editor

Baruch College/CUNY Zicklin School of Business New York, NY, USA

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Robert A. Schwartz • John Aidan Byrne Antoinette Colaninno Editors

Volatility Risk and Uncertainty in Financial Markets

Editors Robert A. Schwartz Department of Finance Zicklin School of Business Baruch College, CUNY New York, NY USA [email protected]

John Aidan Byrne 169 Chestnut Terrace Rockaway, NJ USA

Antoinette Colaninno Zicklin School of Business Baruch College, CUNY New York, NY USA [email protected]

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Contents

List of Participants

vii

Conference Sponsors

ix

Preface

xi

Chapter 1: Intraday Volatility: The Empirical Evidence

1

Chapter 2: Opening Address: Reto Francioni

19

Chapter 3: What Is Happening With Financial Market Volatility and Why?

29

Chapter 4: Volatility and Technology

47

Chapter 5: Volatility and Market Structure

65

Chapter 6: Implications for Trading

85

Chapter 7: Closing Dialog: Sandy Frucher and Erin Burnett

99

Chapter 8: Accentuated Intraday Stock Price Volatility

111

Participant Biographies

127

List of Participants

Robert Almgren

New York University

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