forecasting errors in realized volatility are substantive. Even though returns standardized by ex post quadratic variation … degree of volatility risk in stock and index returns, where we characterize volatility risk by the extent to which … distribution of returns. Explicitly modeling this volatility risk is fundamental. We propose a dually asymmetric realized …

of volatility risk in stock and index returns, where we characterize volatility risk by the extent to which forecasting … errors in realized volatility are substantive. Even though returns standardized by ex post quadratic variation measures are … of returns. Explicitly modeling this volatility risk is fundamental. We propose a dually asymmetric realized volatility …

is highly integrated. Introducing a new World Fear index, we find that local and global aggregate market returns are … mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …. Buying stocks with high sensitivities to World Fear while selling stocks with low sensitivities generates excess returns of …

volatility forecasting measures on future stock returns in four different periods (bear and bull markets). First we find clear …This paper investigates the role of volatility risk on stock return predictability specified on two global financial … and robust empirical evidence that the implied idiosyncratic volatility is the best stock return predictor for every sub …

We study the relationship between conditional quantiles of returns and the long-, medium- and short-term volatility in … the volatility time series provides us with new insights into the pricing of risk and increases the accuracy of our …

The paper investigates the impact of jumps in forecasting co-volatility, accommodating leverage effects. We modify the … definite. Using this approach we can disentangle the estimates of the integrated co-volatility matrix and jump variations from … the co-jumps of two assets have a significant impact on future co-volatility, but that the impact is negligible for …

This paper studies the intertemporal relation between U.S. volatility risk and international equity risk premia. We … show that a common volatility risk factor constructed from the option-implied U.S. forward variances positively and … robust to the inclusion of existing domestic and U.S. predictors and alternative U.S. volatility risk proxies. The …

type prior for this parameter and compare our Bayesian approach to ordinary least squares estimation and to the reduced …