exposure to changes in the price of the underlying stock (delta), and exposure to changes in implied volatility (vega) are …-known market, size, book-to-market, momentum, and short-term reversal factors. Additional volatility, stock, and option market …

exposure to changes in the underlying stock price (delta), and exposure to changes in implied volatility (vega) are removed …-to-market, momentum, short-term reversal, volatility, or option market factors …

-ante measures of volatility, skewness, and kurtosis implied from stock option prices are positively related to the cross section of … volatility, only the unsystematic components of skewness and kurtosis are related to the cross section of expected stock returns …

volatility over the next month, but with decreasing realized volatility. These predictability patterns are consistent with …

We examine the relation between expected future volatility (options' implied volatility) and the cross-section of … expected returns. A trading strategy buying stocks in the highest implied volatility quintile and shorting stocks in the lowest … implied volatility quintile generates insignificant returns. A similar strategy using one-month lagged realized volatility …

predict future returns, there is a significant relation between volatility spreads and expected stock returns. Portfolio level … the realized-implied volatility spread that can be viewed as a proxy for volatility risk. The results also provide … evidence for a significantly positive link between expected returns and the call-put options' implied volatility spread that …