Andersen, Torben G.; Fusari, Nicola; Todorov, Viktor - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
We study the dynamic relation between market risks and risk premia using time series of index option surfaces. We find that priced left tail risk cannot be spanned by market volatility (and its components) and introduce a new tail factor. This tail factor has no incremental predictive power for...