attempts to quantify the impact of STT imposition and subsequent revisions on volatility and trading volume during Oct 2003 …-July 2013. Empirical results show a mixed response of volatility and volume to changes in STT. Even though STT has …

This paper studies the information content of the S&P 500 and VIX markets on the volatility of the S&P 500 returns. We … risk-neutral distributions as well as the term structure of volatility smiles and of variance risk premia. We find that the …

This study explores the benefits of incorporating fat-tailed innovations, asymmetric volatility response, and an … extended information set into crude oil return modeling and forecasting. To this end, we utilize standard volatility models … Stochastic Volatility (SV), along with Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) regressions, which enable us to incorporate the impacts of …

the variance of idiosyncratic returns. The estimation is performed on a time series of returns and option prices from 2006 …

Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk …