the mean and volatility of equity returns. Our model assumes a small risk of a rare disaster that is calibrated based on … turns out to be crucial to the model's ability to explain both equity volatility and option prices. We explore different …

impose tight upper and lower bounds on the implied volatility …

-of-sample volatility of optimized portfolios from each model. A few factors capture the general covariance structure but adding more … yield similar results. Using a tracking error volatility criterion, larger differences appear, with particularly favorable …

information-based model demonstrates that the correlation of beliefs implied by analyst forecasts leads to return correlations … broadly in line with the data, both in levels and across countries - the correlation between predicted and actual is 0.63. Our … findings have implications for market-wide volatility - the model-implied correlations alone can explain 44% of the cross …

examines the implications of stochastic volatility and jumps for option valuation. This example highlights the impact on option … amp;apos;smirksamp;apos; of the joint distribution of jumps in volatility and jumps in the underlying asset price, through …

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of unspanned stochastic volatility in commodity markets in general and the crude …-oil market in particular. We present model-free results that strongly suggest the presence of unspanned stochastic volatility in … stochastic volatility. The model features correlations between innovations to futures prices and volatility, quasi …

We use a novel pricing model to filter times series of diffusive volatility and jump intensity from Samp;P 500 index … about twice the premium required to compensate the same investor for the realized volatility, 5.8 percent. Moreover, the ex …

This paper studies the pricing of volatility risk using the first-order conditions of a long-term equity investor who … volatility. Empirically, we present novel evidence that low-frequency movements in equity volatility, tied to the default spread …