This paper proposes a statistical model and a conceptual framework to estimate inflation volatility assuming rational inattention, where the decay in the level of attention reflects the arrival of news in the market. We estimate trend inflation and the conditional inflation volatility for...

The study of significant deterministic seasonal patterns in financial asset returns is of high importance to academia and investors. This paper analyzes the presence of seasonal daily patterns in the VIX and S&P 500 returns series using a trigonometric specification. First, we show that, given...

There is little evidence in support of a normal distribution for most financial assets, including the VIX. This paper concludes that the lambda parameter, in the one-parameter Box & Cox (1964) family, appropriate for VIX to be normal, is minus one (expected precision), which is very far from...