Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Fan, Jianqing; Li, Yingying - In: Journal of Financial Economics 109 (2013) 1, pp. 224-249
The leverage effect refers to the generally negative correlation between an asset return and its changes of volatility …. A natural estimate consists in using the empirical correlation between the daily returns and the changes of daily … nearly zero correlation for most assets tested, despite the many economic reasons for expecting the estimated correlation to …