Viktor Todorov

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

2001 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL 60208

United States

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251

Scholarly Papers (25)

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Tails, Fears and Risk Premia

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2011
Tim Bollerslev and Viktor Todorov
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Citation 65

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rare events, jumps, high-frequency data, options, fears, extreme value

Tails, Fears and Risk Premia

CREATES Research Paper No. 2009-26
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jun 2009
Tim Bollerslev and Viktor Todorov
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Citation 29

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rare events, jumps, high-frequency data, options, fears, extreme value theory, equity risk premium, variance risk premium

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Roughing up Beta: Continuous versus Discontinuous Betas and the Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2016
Tim Bollerslev, Sophia Zhengzi Li and Viktor Todorov
Duke University - Finance, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Citation 64

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Market price risks; jump betas; high-frequency data; cross-sectional return variation

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Volatility Jumps

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 3
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Jul 2008
Viktor Todorov and George Tauchen
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Duke University - Economics Group
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Stochastic volatility, activity index, Blumenthal-Getoor index, jumps, VIX index, jump risk premium

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The Fine Structure of Equity-Index Option Dynamics

Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 187, pp. 532-546, 2015
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2015
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Duke University - Economics Group
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high-frequency data, implied volatility, jump activity, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, stable process, stochastic volatility, VIX index

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Volatility Measurement with Pockets of Extreme Return Persistence

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Nov 2020
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Dept of ISOM and Dept of FinanceHong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Virginia Tech Econ Department
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extreme return persistence, high-frequency data, integrated volatility estimation, market microstructure noise, volatility forecasting.

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Estimation of Jump Tails

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 38
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2011
Tim Bollerslev and Viktor Todorov
Downloads 207 (297,946)
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Extreme events, jumps, high-frequency data, jump tails, non-parametric estimation, stochastic volatility

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Testing for Stationarity of Volatility Curves

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 25 Jul 2023
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of Statistics and Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of Statistics and Management
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functional invariance principle, high-frequency data, stationarity test, structural break, volatility curves

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Do Equity and Options Markets Agree about Volatility?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Sep 2024
Carsten H. Chong and Viktor Todorov
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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arbitrage, market segmentation, options, pricing kernel, risk-neutral probability, stochastic discount factor, stochastic volatility

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realized volatility, multipower variation, jumps, quadratic variation, volatility estimation, volatility forecasting, jump testing, continuous-time stochastic volatility model

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A nonparametric test for rough volatility

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Carsten H. Chong and Viktor Todorov
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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high-frequency data, Itô semimartingale, characteristic function, nonparametric test, rough volatility

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Volatility Activity: Specification and Estimation

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 114
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Oct 2011
Viktor Todorov, George Tauchen and Iaryna Grynkiv
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Duke University - Economics Group and Duke University
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Asymmetric Volatility Activity, High-Frequency Data, Laplace Transform, Signed Power Variation, Specification Testing, Stochastic Volatility, Volatility Jumps

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Volatility of Volatility and Leverage Effect from Options

Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 240, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 May 2023 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2024
Carsten H. Chong and Viktor Todorov
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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characteristic function; leverage effect; nonparametric estimation; options; volatility of volatility

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Activity Signature Functions for High-Frequency Data Analysis

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 2
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Jul 2008
George Tauchen and Viktor Todorov
Duke University - Economics Group and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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activity index, Blumenthal-Getoor index, jumps, Levy process, realized power variation

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Changes in the Span of Systematic Risk Exposures

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 13 Feb 2023
Yuan Liao and Viktor Todorov
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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asset pricing, high-frequency data, latent factor model, nonparametric test, PCA, systematic risk

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The Realized Laplace Transform of Volatility

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 72
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2011
George Tauchen and Viktor Todorov
Duke University - Economics Group and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Laplace transform, stochastic volatility, Central Limit Theorem, activity index, jumps, high-frequency data

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The Pricing of Short-Term Market Risk: Evidence from Weekly Options

NBER Working Paper No. w21491
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Torben G. Andersen, Nicola Fusari and Viktor Todorov
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Inverse Realized Laplace Transforms for Nonparametric Volatility Estimation in Jump-Diffusions

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 112
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Oct 2011
Viktor Todorov and George Tauchen
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Duke University - Economics Group
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Laplace transform, stochastic volatility, ill-posed problems, regularization, nonparametric density estimation, high-frequency data

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Realized Laplace Transforms for Estimation of Jump Diffusive Volatility Models

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 75
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Oct 2010
Viktor Todorov, George Tauchen and Iaryna Grynkiv
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Duke University - Economics Group and Duke University
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Jumps, High-Frequency Data, Laplace Transform, Stochastic Volatility

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Asymptotic Expansions for High-Frequency Option Data

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 May 2023
Carsten H. Chong and Viktor Todorov
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Deep Itô semimartingale; higher-order asymptotic expansion; characteristic function; options; stochastic volatility

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asset price, high-frequency data, Ito semimartingale violation, real-time detection, stopping rule

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Limit Theorems for Power Variations of Pure-Jump Processes with Application to Activity Estimation

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 74
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Oct 2010
Viktor Todorov and George Tauchen
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Duke University - Economics Group
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Activity Index, Blumenthal-Getoor Index, Central Limit Theorem, Ito Semimartingale, High-Frequency Data, Jumps, Realized Power Variation

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Parametric Inference and Dynamic State Recovery from Option Panels

NBER Working Paper No. w18046
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 May 2012 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022
Torben G. Andersen, Nicola Fusari and Viktor Todorov
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Observable Versus Latent Risk Factors

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Aug 2024
Yuan Liao and Viktor Todorov
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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asset pricing, high-frequency data, latent factor model, nonparametric test, PCA

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Short-Time Expansion of Characteristic Functions in a Rough Volatility Setting With Applications

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2024
Carsten H. Chong and Viktor Todorov
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 43 (832,098)

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asymptotic expansion, characteristic function, fractional Brownian motion, Hurst parameter, infinite variation jumps, Itô semimartingale, options, rough volatility

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Variance Risk-Premium Dynamics: The Role of Jumps

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 345-383, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2010
Viktor Todorov

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C51, C52, G12, G13