The importance of the volatility risk premium for volatility forecasting

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)303-320
Seitenumfang18
FachzeitschriftJournal of Banking and Finance
Jahrgang40
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - März 2014
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In this paper, we study the role of the volatility risk premium for the forecasting performance of implied volatility. We introduce a non-parametric and parsimonious approach to adjust the model-free implied volatility for the volatility risk premium and implement this methodology using more than 20. years of options and futures data on three major energy markets. Using regression models and statistical loss functions, we find compelling evidence to suggest that the risk premium adjusted implied volatility significantly outperforms other models, including its unadjusted counterpart. Our main finding holds for different choices of volatility estimators and competing time-series models, underlying the robustness of our results.

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The importance of the volatility risk premium for volatility forecasting. / Prokopczuk, Marcel; Wese Simen, Chardin.
in: Journal of Banking and Finance, Jahrgang 40, Nr. 1, 03.2014, S. 303-320.

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Prokopczuk M, Wese Simen C. The importance of the volatility risk premium for volatility forecasting. Journal of Banking and Finance. 2014 Mär;40(1):303-320. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.12.002
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