Lu, Zhongjin; Zhu, Yingzi - In: Journal of Futures Markets 30 (2010) 3, pp. 230-256
In this study we empirically study the variance term structure using volatility index (VIX) futures market. We first derive a new pricing framework for VIX futures, which is convenient to study variance term structure dynamics. We construct five models and use Kalman filter and maximum...