Schwarz, Claudia - 2014 - This version: January 13, 2014
from options data. In a second step, jump tail distributions are approximated using the extreme value theory. Applying the … investor fear index for the US and Germany, I find that the correlation of the fear index for the US with the VIX is 89.5% and … that of the fear index for Germany with the VDAX is 90.6%. …