The Risk Return Relationship: Evidence from Index Return and Realised Variance Series

31 Pages Posted: 19 Mar 2014

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Minxian Yang

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics

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Date Written: March 19, 2014

Abstract

The risk return relationship is analysed in bivariate models for return and realised variance (RV) series. Based on daily time series from 21 international market indices for more than 13 years (January 2000 to February 2013), the empirical findings support the arguments of risk return tradeoff, volatility feedback and statistical balance. It is reasoned that the empirical risk return relationship is primarily shaped by two important data features: the negative contemporaneous correlation between the return and RV, and the difference in the autocorrelation structures of the return and RV.

Keywords: risk premium, volatility feedback, return predictability, realised variance model, statistical balance

JEL Classification: C32, C52, G12, G10

Suggested Citation

Yang, Minxian, The Risk Return Relationship: Evidence from Index Return and Realised Variance Series (March 19, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2411303 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2411303

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