We establish sufficient conditions on durations that arestationary with finite variance and memory parameter $d \in[0,1/2)$ to ensure that the corresponding counting process $N(t)$satisfies $Var N(t) \sim C t^{2d+1}$ ($Cgt;0$) as $t\rightarrow \infty$, with the same memory parameter $d...

Sellers of variance swaps earn time-varying risk premia for their exposure to realized variance, the level of variance swap rates, and the slope of the variance swap curve. To measure risk premia, we estimate a dynamic term structure model that decomposes variance swap rates into expected...