## Abstract This article reports new empirical results on the information content of implied volatility, with respect to modeling and forecasting the volatility of individual firm returns. The 50 firms with the highest option volume on the Chicago Board Options Exchange between 1988 and 1995 are ex
The information content of option-implied volatility for credit default swap valuation
โ Scribed by Charles Cao; Fan Yu; Zhaodong Zhong
- Book ID
- 116482358
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 367 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1386-4181
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