News Sentiment and the Investor Fear Gauge

This note examines the relationship between aggregate news sentiment and changes in the implied volatility index (VIX). A significant negative contemporaneous relationship between changes in VIX and news sentiment is discovered. The relationship is asymmetric whereby changes in VIX are larger follow...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smales, Lee
Format: Journal Article
Published: Academic Press 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26057