The Importance of the Volatility Risk Premium for Volatility Forecasting
50 Pages Posted: 21 Mar 2013 Last revised: 15 Jun 2014
Date Written: December 29, 2013
Abstract
In this paper, we study the role of the volatility risk premium for the forecasting performance of implied volatility. We introduce a non-parametric and parsimonious approach to adjust the model-free implied volatility for the volatility risk premium and implement this methodology using more than 20 years of options and futures data on three major energy markets. Using regression models and statistical loss functions, we find compelling evidence to suggest that the risk premium adjusted implied volatility significantly outperforms other models, including its unadjusted counterpart. Our main finding holds for different choices of volatility estimators and competing time-series models, underlying the robustness of our results.
Keywords: volatility forecasting, volatility risk premium, implied volatility
JEL Classification: G13, G17
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