Recent Developments in Financial Risk and the Real Economy

I Dew-Becker, S Giglio - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
In this article, we review recent developments in macroeconomics and finance on the
relationship between financial risk and the real economy. We focus on three specific …

The price of variance risk

I Dew-Becker, S Giglio, A Le, M Rodriguez - Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Between 1996 and 2014, it was costless on average to hedge news about future variance at
horizons ranging from 1 quarter to 14 years. Only unexpected, transitory realized variance …

Inferring volatility dynamics and risk premia from the S&P 500 and VIX markets

C Bardgett, E Gourier, M Leippold - Journal of Financial Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We estimate a flexible affine model using an unbalanced panel containing S&P 500 and VIX
index returns and option prices and analyze the contribution of VIX options to the model's in …

Forecasting performance of global economic policy uncertainty for volatility of Chinese stock market

H Yu, L Fang, W Sun - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its applications, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of global economic policy uncertainty (GEPU) on the
volatility of the Chinese stock market and whether GEPU has predictive power for the …

Resolution of policy uncertainty and sudden declines in volatility

D Amengual, D **u - Journal of Econometrics, 2018 - Elsevier
We introduce downward volatility jumps into a general non-affine modeling framework of the
term structure of variance. With variance swaps and S&P 500 returns, we find that downward …

A general framework for discretely sampled realized variance derivatives in stochastic volatility models with jumps

Z Cui, JL Kirkby, D Nguyen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2017 - Elsevier
After the recent financial crisis, the market for volatility derivatives has expanded rapidly to
meet the demand from investors, risk managers and speculators seeking diversification of …

Risk premia and the vix term structure

TL Johnson - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017 - cambridge.org
The shape of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) term structure
conveys information about the price of variance risk rather than expected changes in the …

Polynomial diffusions and applications in finance

D Filipović, M Larsson - Finance and Stochastics, 2016 - Springer
This paper provides the mathematical foundation for polynomial diffusions. They play an
important role in a growing range of applications in finance, including financial market …

Bond variance risk premiums

H Choi, P Mueller, A Vedolin - Review of Finance, 2017 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies variance risk premiums in the Treasury market. We first develop a theory
to price variance swaps and show that the realized variance can be perfectly replicated by a …

The term structure of variance swaps and risk premia

Y Ait-Sahalia, M Karaman, L Mancini - Swiss Finance Institute …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the term structure of variance swaps, equity and variance risk premia. A model-free
analysis reveals a significant price jump component in variance swap rates. A model-based …