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Basket implied volatility skew and stickiness

Masaaki Fukasawa·Jun Maeda·Tatsuya Ogiwara
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We study the short-maturity implied volatility and the skew stickiness ratio for baskets of assets with continuous, possibly rough, stochastic volatility. The fluctuation of the instantaneous basket variance has two sources: fluctuations of the constituent variances and fluctuations of the basket weights. We derive a near-the-money implied volatility expansion that separates these contributions. We then specialize the result to volatility models given by general functions of Gaussian Volterra factors and obtain an explicit basket skew coefficient in terms of the short-time kernel asymptotics, the factor sensitivities, and the return-factor correlations. A density expansion justifies differentiation of the near-the-money expansion at the money. Finally, using a Malliavin representation of the dynamics of total implied variance, we prove that the short-maturity skew stickiness ratio converges to the universal limit $H + 3/2$ for Gaussian factor basket models with $H \in (0, 1/2]$.

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Masaaki Fukasawa, Jun Maeda, Tatsuya Ogiwara. 2026-09-28. Basket implied volatility skew and stickiness. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38230

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