Modelling of volatility of stock prices using GARCH models & its importance in portfolio construction

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-96). === This thesis is aimed at investigating the possibility to model the risk of stocks in financial markets and evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of univariate GARCH models such as the symmetric GARCH and a few other variations such as the E...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mtemeri, Tinotenda
Other Authors: Guo, Renkuan
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8958