The term structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risk

Abstract

We study the term structure of variance (total risk), systematic, and idiosyncratic risk. Consistent with the expectations hypothesis, we find that, for the entire market, the slope of the term structure of variance is mainly informative about the path of future variance. Thus, there is little indication of a time‐varying term premium. Turning the focus to individual stocks, we cannot reject the expectations hypothesis for systematic variance, but we strongly reject it for idiosyncratic variance. Our results are robust to jumps and potential statistical biases.

Volatility term structures in commodity markets

“…Further studies on the volatility term structure in equity markets include: Campa and Chang (), Mixon (), Johnson (), and Hollstein, Prokopczuk, and WeseSimen ().…”