The information content of short-term options

Oikonomou, Ioannis, Stancu, Andrei, Symeonidis, Lazaros and Simen, Chardin Wese (2019) The information content of short-term options. Journal of Financial Markets, 46. ISSN 1386-4181

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Abstract

We exploit weekly options on the S&P 500 index to compute the weekly implied variance. We show that the weekly implied variance is a strong predictor of the weekly realized variance. In an encompassing regression test, it crowds out the information content of the monthly implied variance. Further tests reveal that the weekly implied variance outperforms not only the monthly implied variance but also well-established time series models of realized variance. This result holds both in- and out-of-sample and the forecast accuracy gains are significant.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Finance Group
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Aug 2019 08:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 05:07
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71916
DOI:	10.1016/j.finmar.2019.07.003

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