Research Article

Pricing Variance Swaps for Stochastic Volatilities with Delay and Jumps

Table 1

Statistics on log-returns of Canada index.

SeriesLog-returns of Canada index

Sample
Observations 1300
Mean0.000235
Median0.000593
Maximum0.051983
Minimumāˆ’0.101108
Std. Dev.0.013567
Skewnessāˆ’0.665741
Kurtosis7.787327