Variance risk premiums and predictive po
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Zhiguang Wang; Scott W. Fausti; Bashir A. Qasmi
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We propose a fear index for corn using the variance swap rate synthesized from out‐of‐the‐money call and put options as a measure of implied variance. We find negative and time‐varying variance risk premiums (realized variance minus implied variance) in the corn market from 1987 to 2009