The Price of Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Evidence from Daily Option Expirations

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Abstract: Using recently available daily S&P 500 index option expirations, we examine the ex ante pricing of uncertainty surrounding key economic releases and the determinants of risk premia associated with these releases. The cost of insurance against price, variance, and downside risk is higher for options that span U.S. CPI, FOMC, Nonfarm Payroll, and GDP releases compared to neighboring expirations. We calculate release-driven forward equity and variance risk premia and find that premia vary considerably across economic releases and increase with risk aversion as well as with monetary policy and real economic uncertainty. The empirical framework presented in this paper can be used to examine the ex ante pricing of a wide variety of events.

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Date created	September 6, 2023

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/rn650jw2470, https://doi.org/10.25740/rn650jw2470
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rn650jw2470

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Preferred citation: Samadi , M. and Londono, J. (2023). The Price of Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Evidence from Daily Option Expirations. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/rn650jw2470. https://doi.org/10.25740/rn650jw2470.

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