The model-free implied volatility and its information content

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1305-1342

  Jiang, George J ^a   Tian, Yisong S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EID: 27544452915     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhi027     Document Type: Review

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