The term structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risk |
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| Authors: | Fabian Hollstein Marcel Prokopczuk Chardin Wese Simen |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Economics and Management, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany;2. ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, UK |
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| Abstract: | We study the term structure of variance (total risk), systematic, and idiosyncratic risk. Consistent with the expectations hypothesis, we find that, for the entire market, the slope of the term structure of variance is mainly informative about the path of future variance. Thus, there is little indication of a time-varying term premium. Turning the focus to individual stocks, we cannot reject the expectations hypothesis for systematic variance, but we strongly reject it for idiosyncratic variance. Our results are robust to jumps and potential statistical biases. |
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| Keywords: | expectations hypothesis idiosyncratic risk implied correlation model-free option-implied variance options systematic risk term structure |
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