Beyond the Traditional VIX: A Novel Approach to Identifying Uncertainty Shocks in Financial Markets
超越传统 VIX:金融市场不确定性冲击的新识别方法
We introduce a new identification strategy for uncertainty shocks to explain macroeconomic volatility in financial markets. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) measures market expectations of future volatility, but traditional methods based on second-moment shocks and time-varying volatility of the VIX often fail to capture the non-Gaussian, heavy-tailed nature of asset returns. To address this, we construct a revised VIX by fitting a…