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- Title
What's Vol Got to Do with It.
- Authors
Drechsler, Itamar; Yaron, Amir
- Abstract
Uncertainty plays a key role in economics, finance, and decision sciences. Financial markets, in particular derivative markets, provide fertile ground for understanding how perceptions of economic uncertainty and cash-flow risk manifest themselves in asset prices. We demonstrate that the variance premium, defined as the difference between the squared VIX index and expected realized variance, captures attitudes toward uncertainty. We show conditions under which the variance premium displays significant time variation and return predictability. A calibrated, generalized long-run risks model generates a variance premium with time variation and return predictability that is consistent with the data, while simultaneously matching the levels and volatilities of the market return and risk-free rate. Our evidence indicates an important role for transient non-Gaussian shocks to fundamentals that affect agents' views of economic uncertainty and prices.
- Subjects
MARKET volatility; FINANCIAL risk; MATHEMATICAL models of finance; RISK -- Mathematical models; PRICES -- Mathematical models; MATHEMATICAL models of derivative securities
- Publication
Review of Financial Studies, 2011, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0893-9454
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rfs/hhq085