In this paper we propose a new methodology to estimate the volatility of interest rates in the euro area money market … liquidity risk. The measure is constructed as the implied instantaneous volatility of a consol bond that would be priced on the … historical volatility, in the sense that dividing the consol excess returns by this volatility removes nearly entirely excess of …

, we implement the mixture of log-normals model and a volatility-smoothing method. We discuss the time series behaviour of … second main observation is a significant spillover of volatility, as the implied volatility and kurtosis of the DAX RND are … mostly driven by the volatility of US stock prices. …

future exchange rates. The purpose of this paper is to systematically assess the quality of option based volatility, interval … option prices. We find that the OTC implied volatilities explain a much larger share of the variation in realized volatility …

volatility risk, for dollar, euro and pound rates at a daily frequency, between October 1998 and August 2006. The measurement of … the volatility risk premium rests on a simple model according to which variance forecasts are generated under the … large - negative - compensation for volatility risk, a component which was smaller in absolute terms - but not relative to …

returns and the equity variance premium. We evaluate a plethora of state-of-the-art volatility forecasting models to produce …