Arbeitspapier

Global variance term premia and intermediary risk appetite

Sellers of variance swaps earn time-varying risk premia for their exposure to realized variance, the level of variance swap rates, and the slope of the variance swap curve. To measure risk premia, we estimate a dynamic term structure model that decomposes variance swap rates into expected variances and term premia. Empirically, we document a strong global factor structure in variance term premia across the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Japan. We further show that variance term premia are negatively correlated with the risk appetite of hedge funds, broker-dealers, and mutual funds. Our results support the hypothesis that financial intermediaries are marginal investors in the variance swap market.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Staff Report ; No. 789

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing; option pricing
Financial Econometrics
Thema
variance swap
variance risk premium
term structure
empirical asset pricing
volatility
financial intermediaries

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Van Tassel, Peter
Vogt, Erik
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Van Tassel, Peter
  • Vogt, Erik
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Entstanden

  • 2016

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