This article investigates the pricing of volatility risk in agricultural commodity markets. We show theoretically that … the cost of bearing volatility risk can be measured using returns to delta-neutral straddles. Using a sample of options … investors are willing to pay a cost to avoid volatility risk. Second, volatility risk is priced mainly at short maturities …

In recent years there has been a remarkable growth of volatility options. In particular, VIX options are among the most … actively trading contracts at CBOE. These options exhibit upward sloping volatility skew and the shape of the skew is largely … independent of the volatility level. To take into account these stylized facts, this article introduces a novel two …

and crashes, fat-tailed return distributions, volatility clustering, persistent trading volume, coevolving stock prices …

Inspired by the theory of social imitation (Weidlich 1970) and its adaptation to financial markets by the Coherent …

along with the specification of (a) the initial density, and (b) the volatility structure of the density. The volatility …

prices, which translates into skew and smile patterns for implied volatility curves even under constant volatilities … the market. collateral requirements, funding costs, volatility smile, option pricing …

The option implied volatility spread and skew predict stock returns. These variables also reflect the expected cost of … stock returns; however, the volatility spread and skew do not once this implied fee is considered. Results are similar for a … yet in stock prices. These findings indicate that the volatility spread and skew predict returns because they proxy for …

closely and has certain other advantages. Second, we introduce a volatility index that provides a lower bound on the market …