XVII Workshop on Quantitative Finance -- Session on LIQUIDITY, VOLATILITY AND TRADING I (Sala Azzurra)
speaker: Claudio Tebaldi (Politecnico di Torino)
speaker: Fabio Trojani
timetable:
Thu 28 Jan, 15:00 - 17:00, Sala Azzurra
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communication: The Price of the Smile and Variance Risk Premia
speaker: Peter Gruberspeaker: Claudio Tebaldi (Politecnico di Torino)
speaker: Fabio Trojani
abstract: In a tractable stochastic volatility model, we identify the price of the smile as the price of the unspanned risks traded in SPX option markets. The price of the smile reflects two persistent volatility and skewness risks, which imply a downward sloping term structure of low-frequency variance risk premia in normal times. In periods of distress, the term structure is upward sloping and dominated by a high-frequency premium for jump variance. This dichotomy is consistent with the puzzling skew sensitivities of option markets with creditconstrained intermediaries and it builds a challenge for many reducedform and structural models of stochastic volatility.
timetable:
Thu 28 Jan, 15:00 - 17:00, Sala Azzurra
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