Variance Risk Premia
Peter Carr and
Liuren Wu
Finance from University Library of Munich, Germany
Abstract:
We propose a direct and robust method for quantifying the variance risk premium on financial assets. We theoretically and numerically show that the risk-neutral expected value of the return variance, also known as the variance swap rate, is well approximated by the value of a particular portfolio of options. Ignoring the small approximation error, the difference between the realized variance and this synthetic variance swap rate quantifies the variance risk premium. Using a large options data set, we synthesize variance swap rates and investigate the historical behavior of variance risk premia on five stock indexes and 35 individual stocks.
Keywords: Stochastic volatility; variance risk premia; variance swap; volatility swap; option pricing; expectation hypothesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 G10 G12 G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2004-09-07
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