- Forecasting the term structure of option implied volatility: The power of an adaptive method
- Ying Chen, Qian Han, Linlin Niu
- Journal of Empirical Finance (2018) 49: 157-177.（https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2018.09.006）
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- We model the term structure of implied volatility (TSIV) with an adaptive approach to improve predictability, which treats dynamic time series models of globally time-varying but locally constant parameters and uses a data-driven procedure to find the local optimal interval. We choose two specifications of the adaptive models: a simple local AR (LAR) model for a univariate implied volatility series and an adaptive dynamic Nelson-Siegel (ADNS) model of three factors, each based on an LAR, to model the cross-section of the TSIV simultaneously with parsimony. Both LAR and ADNS models uniformly outperform more than a dozen alternative models with significance across maturities for 1-20 day forecast horizons. Measured by RMSE and MAE, the forecast errors of the random walk model can be reduced by between 20% and 60% for the 5 to 20 days ahead forecast. In terms of prediction accuracy of future directional changes, the adaptive models achieve an accuracy range of 60%–90%, which strictly dominates the range of 30%–59% of the alternative models.
- JEL-Codes: C32; C53
- Keywords: Term structure of implied volatility; Local parametric models; Forecasting
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