The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) introduced the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) in 1993. The index has come to act as the benchmark for stock market volatility and, more generally, investor sentiment. The VIX has proven to be very useful in forecasting the future market direction especially...

This paper investigates daily and intraday properties of the VIX and its predecessor the VXO. Sampling data at a one-minute frequency, we document that both the VIX and VXO display a negative drift intraday. While this finding is expected in the VXO, given its constant 30-day maturity at a daily...

This study develops an implied volatility index for the Australian stock market, termed as the AVX, and assesses its information content. The AVX is constructed using S&P/ASX 200 index options with a constant time‐to‐maturity of three months. It is observed that the AVX has a significant...

This article analyzes the behavior of futures prices when the exchange is regulated by price limits. With a model analogous to exchange‐rate target‐zone models, we tested for the existence of a nonlinear S‐shape relation between observed and theoretical futures prices. This phenomenon...

This study examines whether changes in the frequency of market clearing or changes in trading hours on competing exchanges that use different auction systems affect the volatility of futures prices. In particular, this study exploits a natural experiment in the frequency of market clearing of...