The relationship between risk and return is one of the most studied topics in finance. The majority of the literature … is based on a linear, parametric relationship between expected returns and conditional volatility. This paper models the …-realized variance. We find strong robust evidence of volatility feedback in monthly data. Once volatility feedback is accounted for …

The volatility implied by observed market prices as a function of the strike and time to maturity form an Implied … Volatility Surface (IV S). Practical applications require reducing the dimension and characterize its dynamics through a small … investigating long range dependence in the factor loadings series. Our result reveals that shocks to volatility persist for a very …

The volatility implied by observed market prices as a function of the strike and time to maturity form an Implied … Volatility Surface (IVS). Practical applications require reducing the dimension and characterize its dynamics through a small … investigating long range dependence in the factor loadings series. Our result reveals that shocks to volatility persist for a very …

-frequency data, in line with IT developments, enables the use of more information to estimate not only the variance (volatility), but … with respect to the bandwidth selection as well as the sampling frequency selection. The main finding is that the kernel … bandwidth is strongly related to the sampling frequency at the slow-time-time scale when applying a two-scale estimator, while …

risk and return of two pairs trading strategies: a conditional statistical arbitrage method and an implicit arbitrage one … uncertainty with risk and return of stock trading. In terms of methodology, we show the effect that using an encompassing prior … better results in terms of profit per capital engagement and risk than using a standard linear normalization …

incorporates stochastic volatility, long-run risks in consumption and dividends, and Epstein-Zin preferences. Utilizing Bayesian …-term real risk-free interest rate, real consumption growth, and real dividend growth. Our results indicate that, over short and …

general class of discrete-time stochastic volatility (SV) models, characterized by both a leverage effect and jumps in returns … provides a feasible basis for undertaking the nontrivial task of model comparison. Furthermore, we introduce new volatility … model, namely SV-GARCH which attempts to bridge the gap between GARCH and stochastic volatility specifications. In nesting …