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Volatility Derivatives

delete2009-12-01
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Peter Carr *
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Roger Lee
DOI:10.1146/annurev.financial.050808.114304delete
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Volatility derivatives are a class of derivative securities where the payoff explicitly depends on some measure of the volatility of an underlying asset. Prominent examples of these derivatives include variance swaps and VIX futures and options. We provide an overview of the current market for these derivatives. We also survey the early literature on the subject. Finally, we provide relatively simple proofs of some fundamental results related to variance swaps and volatility swaps.
Keywords:
variance swap
volatility swap
realized variance
realized volatility
implied volatility
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Journal of Financial Economics cover
Journal of Financial Economics
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university of chicago
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