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We measure the skew risk premium in the equity index market through the skew swap. We argue that just as variance swaps can be used to explore the relationship between the implied variance in option prices and realized variance, so too can skew swaps be used to explore the relationship between...
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-of-the-money index options well. In a dynamic setting, probability weighting and time-varying equity return volatility combine to match …
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I extend the evidence on the basic stylized facts documented for the U.S. variance risk premium (VP) and show that, while VPs in other countries are also positive and time varying, they do not have predictive power for domestic stock returns, in contrast to the implications of existing...
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returns on both out-of-the-money (OTM) put and OTM call options. Since the variance premium can be written as the expected … return on a portfolio of OTM call and put options, the CPT model also fits the high observed variance premium. In a dynamic …
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-of-the-money index options well. In a dynamic setting, probability weighting and time-varying equity return volatility combine to match …
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This paper investigates the variance risk premium in an international setting. First, I provide new evidence on the basic stylized facts traditionally documented for the US. I show that while the variance premiums in several countries are, on average, positive and display significant time...
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This paper investigates the variance risk premium in an international setting. First, I provide new evidence on the basic stylized facts traditionally documented for the US. I show that while the variance premiums in several other countries are, on average, positive and display significant time...
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We examine the commonality in international equity risk premiums by linking empirical evidence for the international stock return predictability of US downside and upside variance risk premiums (DVP and UVP, respectively) with implications from an international asset pricing framework, which...
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We propose a model-free method for measuring the jump skewness risk premium via a tradingstrategy. We find that in the … increase in periods of market distress. The daytime return on jump skewness isnot spanned by other systematic risk factors …, suggesting it is a systematic risk factor itself. Outsideof trading hours, skewness risk does not seem to be distinguishable from …
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