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The law of one price in equity volatility markets

This paper documents law of one price violations in equity volatility markets. While tightly linked by no-arbitrage restrictions, the prices of VIX futures exhibit significant deviations relative to their option-implied upper bounds. Static arbitrage opportunities occur when the prices of VIX futures violate their bounds. The deviations widen during periods of market stress and predict the returns of VIX futures. A relative value trading strategy based on the deviation measure earns a large Sharpe ratio and economically significant alpha-to-margin. There is evidence that systematic risk and demand pressure contribute to the variation in the no-arbitrage deviations over time.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Staff Report ; No. 953

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing; option pricing
Financial Econometrics
Thema
limits-to-arbitrage
VIX futures
variance swaps
volatility
return predictability

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Van Tassel, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

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

Entstanden

  • 2020

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