Zhang, Jin E.; Shu, Jinghong; Brenner, Menachem - In: Journal of Futures Markets 30 (2010) 9, pp. 809-833
This study analyses the new market for trading volatility; VIX futures. We first use market data to establish the relationship between VIX futures prices and the index itself. We observe that VIX futures and VIX are highly correlated; the term structure of average VIX futures prices is upward...