Bangsgaard, Christine; Kokholm, Thomas - 2022
We analyze the lead-lag relationship between VIX futures and SPX futures on a sample of high-frequency data. We find … that the two futures markets are weakly connected when market volatility is low. In contrast, when volatility is high …, their prices are highly negatively correlated and with the VIX futures leading the SPX futures. We study the determinants of …