This study explores volatility smiles when stock market information is lagged, specifically in the REIT industry. A usual requirement is that REITs can only disseminate information relating to their property valuations once per year; therefore, this leads to the lagging effect. Within the...

This paper aims at predicting the volatility term structure of a given asset. The model is based on the GARCH modeling of the asset's volatility, from which the term structure is derived. We test if the model is able to accommodate the term structure response to volatility shocks. Using data...