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 …

significantly explain differences in the implied volatility surface (IVS) across stocks. Motivated by this finding, we model the IVS …