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Analysis of Financial Return Volatility Clustering from a GARCH Perspective

Aug 2026 · Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences · Vol 290, pp. 171-178 · 0 citations

Abstract

The fluctuation characteristics of financial time series have always been one of the research hotspots in the academic community. Generally speaking, financial return series have the characteristics of volatility clustering, fat tails, conditional heteroskedasticity, asymmetric shocks, etc. The above phenomena can be explained from the perspective of dynamic conditional variance by GARCH models and their extensions. This paper first introduces the basic ideas of ARCH and GARCH models, with a focus on the issue of volatility clustering of financial returns. Then, it reviews the relevant research from three aspects: model evolution, application scenarios, and practical value. It also analyzes the role of GARCH-type models in capturing volatility persistence, asymmetric impact, and risk transmission through applications in cryptocurrencies, energy assets, and high-frequency financial data. The study shows that GARCH-type models capture the volatility clustering feature of financial returns well, but there is still room to improve the modeling of extreme risk, the handling of high-dimensional assets, and model interpretability.

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