Download or read book Global Variance Risk Premium written by Katja Novak and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Variance Risk Premium and Forex Return Predictability written by Arash Aloosh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I use forward-looking information available in stock market volatility indices to predict forex returns. In particular, I find that equity variance risk premiums (VRPs) -- the difference between the risk-neutral and statistical expectations of market return variation -- predict forex returns at a one-month horizon, both in-sample and out-of-sample. Moreover, compared to the major currency carry predictors, global VRP has more predictive power for currency carry trade returns, bilateral forex returns, and excess equity return differentials. To formalize the link between equity VRPs and forex returns, I provide a long-run risk model with stochastic volatility and complete markets, where the expected forex returns are a function of consumption growth variances and equity VRPs.
Download or read book The Variance Risk Premium Around the World written by Juan M. Londono and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up and Downside Variance Risk Premia in Global Equity Markets written by Matthias Held and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Variance Risk Premium Components and International Stock Return Predictability written by Juan M. Londono and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Variance Term Premia and Intermediary Risk Appetite written by Peter Van Tassel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sellers of variance swaps earn time-varying risk premia for their exposure to realized variance, the level of variance swap rates, and the slope of the variance swap curve. To measure risk premia, we estimate a dynamic term structure model that decomposes variance swap rates into expected variances and term premia. Empirically, we document a strong global factor structure in variance term premia across the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Japan. We further show that variance term premia are negatively correlated with the risk appetite of hedge funds, broker-dealers, and mutual funds. Our results support the hypothesis that financial intermediaries are marginal investors in the variance swap market.
Download or read book Variance Risk Premiums in Emerging Markets written by Fang Qiao and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We construct variance risk premiums for the nine major emerging markets of Brazil, China, India, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, and Taiwan from 2000 to 2017 using the sample-extension methodology in Lynch and Wachter (2013). Both the emerging market and developed market variance risk premiums can predict stock market returns. However, the former is more important for longer horizons (beyond four months), whereas the latter is more important for shorter horizons (within four months). The partial integration of emerging markets and global economic uncertainty exposure may explain these different predictability patterns.
Download or read book Variance Risk Premiums and the Forward Premium Puzzle written by Juan M. Londono and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We provide new empirical evidence that world currency and U.S. stock variance risk premiums have nonredundant and significant predictive power for the appreciation rates of twenty-two currencies with respect to the U.S. dollar, especially at the four-month and one-month horizons, respectively. The heterogeneous exposures of currencies to the currency variance risk premium are systematically rising along the line of inflation risk. We rationalize these findings in a consumption-based asset pricing model, with local consumption uncertainty and global inflation uncertainty characterized, respectively, by the stock and currency variance risk premiums.
Download or read book General Equilibrium Option Pricing Method Theoretical and Empirical Study written by Jian Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mainly addresses the general equilibrium asset pricing method in two aspects: option pricing and variance risk premium. First, volatility smile and smirk is the famous puzzle in option pricing. Different from no arbitrage method, this book applies the general equilibrium approach in explaining the puzzle. In the presence of jump, investors impose more weights on the jump risk than the volatility risk, and as a result, investors require more jump risk premium which generates a pronounced volatility smirk. Second, based on the general equilibrium framework, this book proposes variance risk premium and empirically tests its predictive power for international stock market returns.
Download or read book Essays on FX Variance Risk Premium Monetary Policy and Currency Returns written by Igor Pozdeev and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variance risk premium is arguably one of the most important and robust risk premia documented in the academic finance. The first chapter of this thesis deals with variance risk on the FX market: therein, I recover risk-neutralized covariance matrices of currency returns and combine them with ex post realized covariance matrices to determine the sign of the premium, associate portfolios ranked from highest to lowest premium values with popular currency factors, study the determinants of the FX variance risk and its explore asset pricing properties. I find evidence for an overall negative FX variance risk premium, but also document existence of strategies with a significantly positive one. Among portfolios with the most negative premium estimates, the US dollar index and Carry trade familiarly emerge. I report that portfolios of negative spot return momentum and high recently realized variance exhibit more negative FX variance risk premium. As far as the asset pricing properties are concerned, the Carry trade variance risk dominates the US dollar variance risk as a priced factor, contributing to resolution of the differential pricing of "good and bad'' carry portfolios. The second chapter studies the dynamics of currency spot and excess returns before policy rate announcements of central banks in developed economies. Therein, Dmitry Borisenko and I show that currencies depreciate before target rate cuts and appreciate before rate hikes. What makes the finding surprising is the fact that the fixed income derivatives market allows to forecast monetary policy decisions accurately enough to make the above drift exploitable by investors: our baseline specification of the trading strategy constructed by going long and short currencies before predicted local rate hikes and cuts earns a significant average return which would be only marginally higher if the forecast quality were perfect. In the third chapter, Nikola Mirkov, Paul Söderl.
Download or read book Essays on Volatility and Variance Risk Premium written by Xiaoman Su and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Variance Risk Premium Demystified written by Grigory Vilkov and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the dynamics and cross-sectional properties of the variance risk premia embedded in options on stocks and indices, approximated by the synthetic variance swap returns. Several important stylized facts and contributions arise. First, variance risk premia for indices are systematically larger (more negative) than for individual securities. Second, there are systematic cross-sectional differences in the price of variance in individual stocks. Linking variance swaps to firm size/book-to-market, and stock turnover characteristics, an investor gains access to several lucrative long-short strategies with Sharpe Ratios around 2.85. Third, principal component analysis reveals at most one important factor driving both stock and variance swap returns, which corresponds to the traditional market factor. For the remainder of the dynamics, the stock and its variance processes are nearly linearly independent. Fourth, we find the leverage effect through analysis of the relationship between the variance risk premium and stock to variance correlation. The systematic (market factor) part of the leverage effect provides additional evidence of the existence of one factor common to both variance swaps and stocks, but the contribution of the market risk premium to the total variance premium is very small. These findings stress the importance of using variance-based instruments in the portfolio of an investor.
Download or read book Reexamining Financial and Economic Predictability with New Estimators of Realized Variance and Variance Risk Premium written by Isabel Casas and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the predictive power of new estimators of the equity variance risk premium and conditional variance for future excess stock market returns, economic activity, and financial instability, both during and after the last global financial crisis. These estimators are obtained from new parametric and semiparametric asymmetric extensions of the heterogeneous autoregressive model. Using these new specifications, we determine that the equity variance risk premium is a predictor of future excess stock returns, whereas conditional variance predicts them only for long horizons. Moreover, a comparison of the overall results reveals that the conditional variance gains predictive power during the global financial crisis period. Furthermore, both the variance risk premium and conditional variance are determined to be predictors of future financial instability, whereas conditional variance is determined to be the only predictor of economic activity for all horizons. Before the global financial crisis period, the new parametric asymmetric specification of the heterogeneous autoregressive model gains predictive power in comparison to previous work in the literature. However, the new time-varying coefficient models are the ones showing considerably higher predictive power for stock market returns and financial instability during the financial crisis, suggesting that an extreme volatility period requires models that can adapt quickly to turmoil.
Download or read book The Variance Risk Premium written by Junye Li and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the properties of the variance risk premium (VRP). We propose a flexible asset pricing model that captures co-jumps in prices and volatility, and self-exciting jump clustering. We estimate the model on equity returns and variance swap rates at different horizons. The total VRP is negative and has a downward-sloping term structure, while its jump component displays an upward-sloping term structure. The abrupt and persistent response of the short-term jump VRP to extreme events makes this specific premium a proxy for investors' fear of a market crash. Furthermore, the use of the VRP level and slope, and of its components, helps improve the short-run predictability of equity excess returns.
Download or read book Risk Based and Factor Investing written by Emmanuel Jurczenko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of recent articles written by leading academics and practitioners in the area of risk-based and factor investing (RBFI). The articles are intended to introduce readers to some of the latest, cutting edge research encountered by academics and professionals dealing with RBFI solutions. Together the authors detail both alternative non-return based portfolio construction techniques and investing style risk premia strategies. Each chapter deals with new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios, constructing and combining systematic factor strategies and assessing the related rules-based investment performances. This book can assist portfolio managers, asset owners, consultants, academics and students who wish to further their understanding of the science and art of risk-based and factor investing. Contains up-to-date research from the areas of RBFI Features contributions from leading academics and practitioners in this field Features discussions of new methods of building strategic and tactical risk-based portfolios for practitioners, academics and students
Download or read book Variance Risk Premia written by Martino Lupo Pusterla and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Credit Default Swap Spreads and Variance Risk Premia VRP written by Hao Wang and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
