This paper documents law of one price violations in equity volatility markets. While tightly linked by no-arbitrage restrictions, the prices of VIX futures exhibit significant deviations relative to their option-implied upper bounds. Static arbitrage opportunities occur when the prices of VIX...

This paper documents that factors extracted from a large set of macroeconomic variables bear useful information for predicting monthly US excess stock returns and volatility over the period 1980-2005. Factor-augmented predictive regression models improve upon both benchmark models that only...

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

We develop an adaptive learning game to rethink efficient markets. We use the stochastically stable state of this game, which is a mixed Nash equilibrium, to form an adaptive expectation model that provides an estimate of the confidence interval for prices on the next day. The estimate is most...

We explore the issue of estimating a simple agent-based model of price formation in an asset market using the approach of Alfarano et al. (2008) as an example. Since we are able to derive various moment conditions for this model, we can apply generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. We...

We propose a new approach to model high and low frequency components of equity correlations. Our framework combines a factor asset pricing structure with other specifications capturing dynamic properties of volatilities and covariances between a single common factor and idiosyncratic returns....

This paper tests whether it is possible to improve point, quantile and density forecasts of realized volatility by conditioning on macroeconomic and financial variables. We employ quantile autoregressive models augmented with a plethora of macroeconomic and financial variables. Complete subset...

This paper examines the ability of different GARCH models to forecast stock return volatility under a range of forecast metrics, including both statistical and economic evaluation. In particular, we are interested in whether wavelet de-noising of the data prior to estimation affects the ability...