Forecasting Volatility - An Empirical Investigation of Implied Volatility and Its Information Content
The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate volatility forecasts by testing the predictive power of implied volatility vis-à-vis model based forecasts. Furthermore we test if implied volatility contains any additional information beyond that captured by the model based forecasts. A number of time series models are fitted to historical data. The fitted models are then used to forecast volatility. The
