Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/241146 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 953
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper documents law of one price violations in equity volatility markets. While tightly linked by no-arbitrage restrictions, the prices of VIX futures exhibit significant deviations relative to their option-implied upper bounds. Static arbitrage opportunities occur when the prices of VIX futures violate their bounds. The deviations widen during periods of market stress and predict the returns of VIX futures. A relative value trading strategy based on the deviation measure earns a large Sharpe ratio and economically significant alpha-to-margin. There is evidence that systematic risk and demand pressure contribute to the variation in the no-arbitrage deviations over time.
Subjects: 
limits-to-arbitrage
VIX futures
variance swaps
volatility
return predictability
JEL: 
G12
G13
C58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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