The aim of this paper is twofold: to investigate how the information content of implied volatility varies according to … moneyness and option type and to compare option-based forecasts with historical volatility. The different information content of … implied volatility is examined for the most liquid at-the-money and out-of-the-money options: put (call) options for strikes …

This study attempts to examine the price discovery process and volatility spillovers in Gold futures and spot markets …

demonstrate that geopolitical risk plays an important role in determining both oil price volatility and (to a lesser extent) stock … market volatility. An increase in geopolitical risk is associated with positive (negative) oil (stock) returns and is … correlation. This model shows short- and long-term volatility persistence for oil and stock prices, together with spillover …

between studying financial data in terms of the concept of volatility and in rapport to analysing financial data in terms of …

decomposing realized volatility in its continuous and discontinuous jump component. First, we analyze the relation between … volatility and trading activity. Coherent with existing studies we find that the driving factor of the relation between … Data ; Realized Volatility ; Price Jump ; Trading Activity ; Urgent Market Message …

uncertainty and recursive utility function. Within such a framework, the negative volatility risk premium implied from option …

Equity option markets exhibit intense trading activity. We use the variability of option implied volatility spread as a …. Over the 2006 – 2016 period, we find that the predictive power of option implied volatility spread for future stock returns … is significantly greater when implied volatility spread has been more variable in the past. Our results are statistically …

We evaluate the ability of different asset pricing models to explain the flows into VIX ETPs with long volatility …