Ballocchi, Giuseppe; Dacorogna, Michael; Ramazan Gençay - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 4 (2007) 4, pp. 19-32
This article reports a new seasonality in the volatility of Eurofutures contracts as a function of the time left before contract expiry. The fact that futures markets, unlike foreign exchange or equity markets, offer contracts that expire on specific dates, with typically one expiry per quarter...