Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102284 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
FinMaP-Working Paper No. 20
Publisher: 
Kiel University, FinMaP - Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance, Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper investigates how the conditional quantiles of future returns and volatility of financial assets vary with various measures of ex-post variation in asset prices as well as option-implied volatility. We work in the exible quantile regression framework and rely on recently developed model-free measures of integrated variance, upside and downside semivariance, and jump variation. Our results for the S&P 500 and WTI Crude Oil futures contracts show that simple linear quantile regressions for returns and heterogenous quantile autoregressions for realized volatility perform very well in capturing the dynamics of the respective conditional distributions, both in absolute terms as well as relative to a couple of well-established benchmark models. The models can therefore serve as useful risk management tools for investors trading the futures contracts themselves or various derivative contracts written on realized volatility.
Subjects: 
conditional quantiles
Value-at-Risk
quantile regression
realized measures
JEL: 
C14
C21
G17
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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