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that they can use the VIX futures term structure not only as a proxy of market expectations on forward volatility, but also …Our work relates to the literature supporting that the VIX also mirrors investor sentiment and, thus, contains useful … information regarding future S&P500 returns. The objective of this empirical analysis is to verify if the shape of the volatility …
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The innovative aspects of the paper consist of focusing on three volatility indices: the … oil (OVX), gold (GVZ), and S&P500 (VIX) markets (considered in log-difference). We use weekly data and resort to DCC … of the volatility measures, and the correlations are stronger during crisis periods; (ii) GCC stock returns are mostly …
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We investigate the risk-return trade-off on the US and European stock markets. We investigate the non-linear risk-return trade-off with a special eye to the tails of the stock returns using quantile regressions. We first consider the US stock market portfolio. We find that the risk-return...
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The aim of this paper is to study the integration of volatility in the three markets, viz. spot, futures and options … volatility in the options market is not associated with volatility in spot and futures market. However, volatility in spot and … moments (GMM) is used to capture the simultaneous equation modelling of volatility in the three markets. The integration of …
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The popular replication formula to price variance swaps assumes continuity of traded option strikes. In practice, however, there is only a discrete set of option strikes traded on the market. We present here different discrete replication strategies and explain why the continuous replication...
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Prior theory suggests a positive relation between volatility and market depth, while past empirical research finds … contrasting results. This paper examines the relation between the volatility and the limit order book depth in commodity and … foreign exchange futures markets during a turbulent time using the generalized method of moments (GMM). Results indicate a …
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use of computational methods and techniques for modelling financial asset prices, returns, and volatility, and on the use …
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futures. Simpler approaches are also used for comparison purposes like the naïve, OLS and the dynamic multivariate GARCH model … provide higher variance reductions in terms of hedging effectiveness; there is poor correlation among spot and futures, not … coherence and to statistical relationships between spot and futures electricity series. The instability found in various aspects …
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In this paper, the Heston-Nandi futures option pricing model is applied to Bitcoin futures options. The model prices … futures option pricing methodology based on a multivatiate GARCH model is developed. The empirical results show that a … symmetric model is a better fit when applied to Bitcoin futures returns, and also produces more accurate option prices compared …
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days. This study confirms that applying the traditional model to Japan’s Nikkei 225 futures prices produces negative … optimized parameter values. This suggests that the Japanese market is not weak-form efficient in the sense that futures prices …
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