In this paper, we investigate the dynamic response of stock market volatility to changes in monetary policy. Using a … vector autoregressive model, our findings reveal a significant and asymmetric response of stock returns and volatility to … monetary policy shocks. Although the increase in the volatility risk premium, futures-trading volume, and leverage appear to …

In this paper, we examine whether jumps matter in both equity market returns and integrated volatility. For this … purpose, we use the swap variance (SwV) approach to identify monthly jumps and estimated realized volatility in prices for … jumps. In emerging markets, the markets with average volatility earn higher returns during jump periods; however, highly …

of long-term stock market volatility. When long-term volatility is high, stock returns are more sensitive to news, and …-linear present value framework with a two-component volatility model for the conditional variance of cash flow news and allowing for … volatility feedback. In our model, innovations to the long-term volatility component are the most important driver of discount …

We construct a global implied volatility surface by combining information from the index options of twenty countries … and regions. The convexity of the global surface positively predicts equity premia around the world, in- and out …, including global level and slope, U.S. convexity, VIX, SVIX, variance risk premium, and left-tail volatility. The predictability …