# Prof. Robert Engle's research on volatility is highlighted

1 Faculty News February 3, 2014 ![MarketWatch logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketwatch%20logo.jpg?itok=pHUVfozf)>

Excerpt from [MarketWatch](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/using-the-vix-to-navigate-market-volatility-2014-02-03) -- "Research conducted by [Robert Engle III](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle), a finance professor at New York University who received the Nobel Prize in economics in 2003 for his work on market volatility, found that periods of high volatility tend to be clustered together."

[Read more](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/using-the-vix-to-navigate-market-volatility-2014-02-03)