Dynamic relations of uncertainty expectations: a conditional assessment of implied volatility indices

Costas Siriopoulos () and Athanasios Fassas

Review of Derivatives Research, 2013, vol. 16, issue 3, 233-266

Abstract: This study examines the spillover effects in international financial markets with respect to implied volatility indices. The use of the latter as the basis of integration analysis means that we test market participants’ expectations and not the actual price fluctuations. The empirical analysis, which includes all publicly available implied volatility indices, employs the dynamic conditional correlation model of Engle ( 2002 ) and its findings suggest that there is significant integration of investors’ expectations about future uncertainty. Furthermore, by accounting for the dynamic volatility of implied volatility inter-dependencies, we are able to reveal possible shifts in conditional correlations of market expectations over time. More specifically, our findings show a slight increase in the conditional correlations for all the volatility indices under review over the years and prove that in periods of turbulence in the financial markets the conditional correlations across implied volatility indices increase. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Implied volatility indices; VIX; Transmission of uncertainty; Dynamic conditional correlation; G13; G14; G15; C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11147-012-9085-x

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