Portfolio Effects of VIX Futures Index

This paper tests short-term and mid-term VIX indexes as a hedge and safe haven asset against U.S. stock risk from January 2006 through July 2016. GARCH dynamic conditional correlation analysis indicates that VIX indexes are an effective hedge due to the consistent inverse relationship between the VI...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mitchell Ratner, Chih-Chieh (Jason) Chiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2017-10-01
Series:Quantitative Finance and Economics
Subjects:
VIX
Online Access:http://www.aimspress.com/QFE/article/1646/fulltext.html