Variance Risk Premium Dynamics: The Impact of Asset Price Jumps on Variance Risk Premia
By Jackson Pfeiffer This paper utilizes the high-frequency stock price data and the corresponding daily option price data of several highly capitalized corporations in order to investigate the impact that asset price jumps of individual equities have on the equities’ respective variance risk premia. The findings of this paper describe many characteristics of the variance […]
Simultaneous Occurrence of Price Jumps and Changes in Diffusive Price Volatility
By Shunting Wei This paper uses high frequency financial data to study the changes in diffusive stock price volatility when price jumps are likely to have occurred. In particular, we study this effect on two levels. Firstly, we compare diffusive volatility on jump and non-jump days. Secondly, we study the change in diffusive volatility in […]
