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We infer conditional swap rate moments model independently from swaption cubes. Conditional volatility and skewness … skewness sometimes changing sign. Conditional skewness displays some relation to the level and volatility of swap rates but is …
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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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particular asset, option prices across different strikes are related to the level of volatility and the correlation of volatility … with option dealers demanding a premium for holding idiosyncratic volatility risk. Contrary to Bollerslev et al. (2009), we …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110367
dynamics of CDS volatility spillover effects surrounding the UK's EU membership referendum commonly known as "Brexit". Using a … the underlined CDS. In particular, we find that UK, Italy and Spain are the "net volatility transmitters", while France … and Germany seem the "net volatility receivers". Our findings may help in formulating appropriate regulatory policies and …
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this, put forward the view that stock and bond return volatility is key. Evidence from the 2000s suggest that the relative … that the relative equity and bond yield values are, to a large extent, driven by inflation volatility. High inflation … volatility persisted during the first half of the twentieth century when the equity yield was higher. This was followed by more …
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one-month variance swap rate, i.e., the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) accurately. Our research suggests that one should use …
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Corridor implied volatility introduced in Carr and Madan (1998) and recently implemented in Andersen and Bondarenko … (2007) is obtained from model-free implied volatility by truncating the integration domain between two barriers. Corridor … implied volatility is implicitly linked with the concept that the tails of the risk-neutral distribution are estimated with …
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We provide new empirical evidence that world currency and U.S. stock variance risk premiums have nonredundant and significant predictive power for the appreciation rates of twenty-two currencies with respect to the U.S. dollar, especially at the four-month and one-month horizons, respectively....
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