Fear in the Korea Market

To quantify the level of fear in the Korea equity market, we construct a volatility index with the market prices of options on the KOSPI 200 index. We use the model-free approach in our construction. The resulting volatility index, referred to as KIX, is found to play a role similar to VIX, the vola...

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Main Author: TING, Hian Ann, Christopher
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/634
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English