Fernandes, Marcelo; Medeiros, Marcelo C.; Scharth, Marcel - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 40 (2014) C, pp. 1-10
This paper performs a thorough statistical examination of the time-series properties of the daily market volatility index (VIX) from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). The motivation lies not only on the widespread consensus that the VIX is a barometer of the overall market sentiment as...