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Surveillance: Stanford Economists Win Nobel Prize

Bloomberg Surveillance

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dean Curnutt, Macro Risk Advisors Founder and CEO, examines volatility in the market ahead of the U.S. election. Robert B. Wilson, Stanford University Professor, reacts to winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics for his improvements to auction theory. Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan Economics Professor and Former Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, says the U.S. can fuel growth by harnessing the untapped potential of the labor force. Paul Donovan, UBS Global Chief Economist, says the failure to do fiscal stimulus now in the U.S. is doing real damage to the economy. Nobel Laureate Michael Spence shares insights into the award-winning work of Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, whose discoveries were recognized today with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics.

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Can we just start with a little bit of a clinic on the volatility term structure,

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what it is and the story around the election that's been priced in and now being priced out?

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Right, so when we look at volatility, we can look at it, can you guys hear me?

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Yeah, we can hear you.

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We can hear you.

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Sorry. Yes, when we look at volatility, we can look at it both across strike and then across time. So when we look at it both across strike and then across time so when we look at it across

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time that's John as you say that this thing called the volatility term

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structure so we can look at the VIX we can look at VIX futures that expire in October, November, December,

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and because there's been this date certain event on the calendar, the election, for months the market

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has differentiated sometimes strongly between options

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