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Implied Lévy volatility [PDF]

open access: possibleQuantitative Finance, 2009
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Peter Leoni   +3 more
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Does Implied Volatility Imply Volatility—in Bonds?

The Journal of Fixed Income, 2001
The authors investigate the relationship between the implied volatility derived from option contracts on U.S. Treasury bond futures and the actual volatility observed in these securities. Research has suggested that implied volatility in stock options correctly forecasts realized volatility in stock prices; the authors find the same is true in bonds ...
Eric Bertonazzi, Michael T. Maloney
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Credit Implied Volatility

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
The pricing of corporate credit can be succinctly understood via the credit-implied volatility (CIV) surface. We invert it each month from the firm-by-maturity panel of CDS spreads via the Merton model, transforming CDS spreads into units of asset volatility. The CIV surface facilitates direct comparison of credit spreads at different "moneyness" (firm
Diogo Palhares   +2 more
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The Predictive Power of REIT Implied Volatility and Implied Idiosyncratic Volatility [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, 2010
Executive Summary. This paper examines the characteristics of real estate investment trust (REIT) equity options and the predictive power of ex ante risk measures obtained using option prices.
Dean Diavatopoulos   +3 more
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The Informational Content of Implied Volatility

Review of Financial Studies, 1993
Implied volatility is widely believed to be informationally superior to historical volatility, because it is the "markets" forecast of future volatility. But for S&P 100 index options, the most actively traded contract in the United States, we find implied volatility.
Canina, Linda, Figlewski, Stephen
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A Note on Computation of Implied Volatility

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2001
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Yoshiteru Kagenishi, Yoshitane Shinohara
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Implied volatility indices – A review [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2009
An implied volatility index reflects the market expectations for the future volatility of the underlying equity index. This study tests and documents the information content, regarding both the realized volatility and the returns of the underlying equity index, of all publicly available implied volatility indices across the world.
Costas Siriopoulos   +3 more
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Implied Volatility at Expiration

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The main result of the paper is a formula for zero time-to-maturity limit of implied volatilities of European options under a broad class of stochastic volatility models. Based on this formula, we propose a closed-form approximation of the implied volatility smile.
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TIGHTER BOUNDS FOR IMPLIED VOLATILITY

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2017
We establish bounds on Black–Scholes implied volatility that improve on the uniform bounds previously derived by Tehranchi. Our upper bound is uniform, while the lower bound holds for most options likely to be encountered in practical applications. We further demonstrate the practical effectiveness of our new bounds by showing how the efficiency of ...
Radoš Radoičić   +3 more
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