This study reconsiders the role of jumps for volatility forecasting by showing that jumps have a positive and mostly significant impact on future volatility. This result becomes apparent once volatility is separated into its continuous and discontinuous component using estimators which are not...

A novel closed-form pricing formula for short-maturity options is employed to jointly identifyequity characteristics (spot volatility, spot leverage, and spot volatility of volatility) which havebeen the focus of large, but separate, strands of the literature. Interpreting equity as a call...