Over the next month the economy is either calm (probability 0.9) or in crisis (probability 0.1). Annualised realised variance is 0.01 (10% vol) in calm and 0.16 (40% vol) in crisis. The stochastic discount factor is in calm and in crisis. (a) Compute , and the variance risk premium in variance units, and the corresponding "implied" and "expected realised" vols. (b) Verify Proposition 9.7 by computing . (c) A trader sells one unit of variance notional at the fair strike every month. What is her expected P&L per month under , her P&L in a crisis month, and the probability she loses in a given month?
M09 · Problem 7 ★★ Check
The variance risk premium in a two-state economy
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