Volatility has emerged as an important distinct asset class over the past decade. The popularity of volatility stems from its unique properties, namely its negative correlation with equity returns and its usefulness as insurance against tail risk. Trading applications of volatility-related...

This study investigates the pricing efficiency of FTSE/ATHEX-20 index futures contracts and examines whether arbitrage profits exist in the Greek market. By comparing ex-post mispricing with round-trip total transaction costs faced by different groups of market participants, the empirical...

This study contributes to the age-old question of whether stock market returns are predictable, by studying the relationship of VIX futures term structure and future S&P500 returns. The objective of this empirical analysis is to verify if the shape of the volatility futures term structure has...

We examine the performance of the expected convexity path of a stock market index using a novel measure of a tangent linear approach. The expected path is expressed as a linear combination that shows whether the transmission from the present value t to the future one (t k)-th is a convex or a...