Markets: A Rigorous Course

M14 · Problem 9 ★ Check

Conditional correlation

Two assets have unconditional correlation 0.4 under the model of Proposition 14.11. (a) What correlation will you measure on calm days where the variance of the first asset is a quarter of its unconditional variance? (b) On crisis days where it is four times? (c) What does this imply for a desk that estimates correlations on the last six calm months?

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