Regulation Change and Volatility Spillovers: Evidence from China's Stock Markets

This paper investigates the structural changes of volatility spillovers between Chinese A-share and B-share markets induced by a regulation change on February 19, 2001, that allowed Chinese domestic investors to trade in the B-share market. The empirical results of the study, using high-frequency intraday data collected from a sample of seventy-eight firms issuing both A-shares and B-shares and employing a bivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model, show that after the regulation change, the volatility in A-shares increases the volatility in B-shares, thus increasing the risk of the whole market, whereas the latter reduces the former, thus reducing the risk of the whole market. A further investigation of the determinants influencing these structural changes shows that the following factors can encourage structural changes that reduce overall market risk: government ownership, institutional ownership, firm size, B-share proportion, and market-to-book ratio. Conversely, the following factors can encourage structural changes that increase overall market risk: dual roles of chief executive officer and chairman and the joint effect of firm size and B-share proportion.     

Empirical Analysis of Stock Returns and Volatility: Evidence from Seven Asian Stock Markets Based on TAR-GARCH Model

This paper investigates the time-series behavior of stock returns for seven Asian stock markets. In most cases, higher average returns appear to be associated with a higher level of volatility. Testing the relationship between stock returns and unexpected volatility, the evidence shows that four out of seven Asian stock markets have significant results. Further analyzing the relationship between stock returns and time-varying volatility by using Threshold Autoregressive GARCH(1,1)-in-mean specification indicates that the null hypothesis of no asymmetric effect on the conditional volatility is rejected for the daily data. However, the null cannot be rejected for the monthly data.     

融资融券试点对我国股票市场波动性的影响实证研究

融资融券交易正式启动对我国股票市场将产生什么样的波动性影响,是学术界和理论界共同关注的焦点。本文在前人研究基础上,从我国实际情况出发,以标的证券指数——上证50指数与深证成指指数作为影响我国股票市场的代表展开实证,运用GARCH族模型,引入虚拟变量D,其中D用来刻画融资融券推出前后对我国股票市场的影响。通过建模,得出融资融券试点一年多时间以来有利于减小我国股票市场波动性的结论。     

How Persistent is Stock Return Volatility? An Answer with Markov Regime Switching Stochastic Volatility Models

Abstract:  We propose generalised stochastic volatility models with Markov regime changing state equations (SVMRS) to investigate the important properties of volatility in stock returns, specifically high persistence and smoothness. The model suggests that volatility is far less persistent and smooth than the conventional GARCH or stochastic volatility. Persistent short regimes are more likely to occur when volatility is low, while far less persistence is likely to be observed in high volatility regimes. Comparison with different classes of volatility supports the SVMRS as an appropriate proxy volatility measure. Our results indicate that volatility could be far more difficult to estimate and forecast than is generally believed.     

Volatility Spillover in Regional Emerging Stock Markets: A Structural Time-Series Approach

Volatility spillovers among the stock markets of Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia are investigated using the concept of stochastic volatility and structural time-series modeling. The results reveal volatility spillovers, in which the Kuwait market plays the major role. It is also found that volatility in one market cannot be explained fully in terms of volatility in the other two markets, but that, out of the three markets, the Kuwait market seems to be the most influential. Some explanations are put forward for why this is the case.     

Shock and Volatility Transmission in the Futures and Spot Markets: Evidence from Turkish Markets

This paper examines the volatility transmission mechanism between the futures and corresponding underlying asset spot markets, focusing on Turkish currency and stock index futures traded on the lately established Turkish Derivatives Exchange (TURKDEX). Employing multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity modeling, which allows for potential spillovers and asymmetries in the variance-covariance structure for the market returns, the paper investigates the volatility interactions among each of the three futures-spot market systems. For all market systems under study, the volatility spillovers are found to be important and bidirectional. For the stock index market system, in line with the previous literature, volatility shows asymmetric behavior and strong asymmetric shock transmission. The main implication is that investors need to account for volatility spillovers and asymmetries among the futures and the spot markets to correctly build hedging strategies.     

Forecasting Changes in Copper Futures Volatility with GARCH Models Using an Iterated Algorithm

There is a gap in the literature regarding the out-of-sample forecasting ability of GARCH-type models applied to derivatives. A practitioner-oriented method (iterated cumulative sum of squares) is applied to detecting breakpoints in the variance of two copper futures series. Short-, intermediate-, and long-term out-of-sample forecasts of copper future series are compared to forecasts from a benchmark random walk model for each series. Not only do the GARCH-type models dominate the random walk model, but the relative improvement is fairly consistent across series, forecast horizon, and GARCH-type model. The evidence makes clear that, with few exceptions, the forecast improvement of the GARCH-type models over the RW model lies somewhere between 20–30%. It is particularly true that for the long-term close to close forecasts, there is great coherence among the forecasts. These all fall within a fairly narrow range.     

Volatility Transmission in the Real Estate Spot and Forward Markets

How shocks in one market influence the returns and volatility of other markets has been an important question for portfolio managers. In the finance literature, many studies found evidence of volatility spillovers across international markets, as well as between spot and futures markets. Although real estate is often regarded as a good vehicle for diversification, the dynamics of its volatility transmission have been largely ignored. This paper provides the first study to examine volatility spillovers between the spot and forward (pre-sale) index returns of the Hong Kong real estate market through a bivariate GARCH model. Transaction-based indices were used so that our volatility modelling was free from any smoothing problem. Our results showed that real estate returns exhibited volatility clustering, and the volatility of the forward market was more sensitive to shocks than the spot market. Moreover, volatility was mainly transmitted from the forward market to the spot market, but not vice versa.

Foreign Exchange Market Volatility in Southeast Asia

The time-varying volatility and volatility transmission in Asian foreign exchange markets are investigated in this paper. It has been found that the time-varying volatility and volatility transmission are all prominent in these markets. Moreover, variance simulation is carried out and the structure of covariance matrices examined, revealing the characteristics of Asian foreign exchange markets and offering explanations to the findings.     

基于变结构Copula模型的股市与汇市间波动溢出效应研究

本文采用变结构Copula模型对我国股、汇市间的波动溢出效应进行研究。利用二元正态Copula函数的时变相关系数得出美元对人民币汇率与沪深300指数间相关关系的变结构点,再利用混合Copula模型分段检验波动溢出效应。实证结果表明,汇改以来,美元对人民币汇率与沪深300指数间存在着长期而显著的波动溢出效应。在次贷危机发生期间,美元对人民币汇率与沪深300指数间相关关系的变结构点增多,尾部相关性增强,两市间的波动溢出效应显著增强。因此,应加强对波动溢出传导中介的管理,减轻波动溢出效应的负面影响。     

Volatility Spillovers and Contagion During the Asian Crisis: Evidence from Six Southeast Asian Stock Markets

Using a multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH-M) model, we investigate volatility spillovers in six Southeast Asian stock markets around the time of the 1997 Asian crisis. We focus on interactions with the U.S. market as a world financial market, and with the Japanese market as a regional financial market. We also use bivariate GARCH-M models to examine the behavior of individual markets and their interactions with other markets in the region. All models lend support to the idea of the "Asian contagion," which started in Thailand and rapidly spread to other markets.     

An Empirical Analysis of the Volatility in the Open-End Fund Market: Evidence from China

This paper applies a set of GARCH models to investigate the three characteristics, including time persistence, leverage effect, and risk premium, of the volatilities of the four China Securities Index (CSI) fund indices. This study made the following four findings: (1) a strong ARCH effect exists in the returns; (2) time persistence is significant in all the CSI fund indices, namely, "stock index," "hybrid index," and "bond index" in descending order of significance; (3) the leverage effect is not statistically significant, yet there may be a positive leverage effect on the bond funds; (4) a risk premium effect exists in the open-end fund market, especially in the bond fund market.     

Asymmetric Price and Volatility Adjustments in Emerging Asian Stock Markets

This paper tests the hypothesis that stock returns in emerging stock markets adjust asymmetrically to past information. The evidence suggests that both the conditional mean and the conditional variance respond asymmetrically to past information. In agreement with studies dealing with developed stock markets, the conditional variance is an asymmetrical function of past innovations, rising proportionately more during market declines. More importantly, the conditional mean is also an asymmetrical function of past returns. Specifically, positive past returns are more persistent than negative past returns of an equal magnitude. This behaviour is consistent with an asymmetric partial adjustment price model where news suggesting overpricing (negative returns) are incorporated faster into current prices than news suggesting underpricing (positive returns). Furthermore, the asymmetric adjustment of prices to past information could be partially responsible for the asymmetries in the conditional variance if the degree of adjustment and the level of volatility are positively related.     

Structural Changes in Volatility of Foreign Exchange Rates after theAsian Financial Crisis

Regime-shift models of daily returns are estimated for the foreign exchange rates of the Asian currencies that suffered from drastic devaluation during the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and the change points are detectedfor their volatility structures. Furthermore, how the persistence in the volatility of their exchange rates changed after the crisis is examined.     

中国利率与股市间波动溢出效应的实证研究

采用多变量EGARCH模型分别对中国利率与沪深股市间的波动溢出效应进行的实证研究表明,股票收益率对利率收益率有着显著的短期动态影响;利率与沪深股市间存在着显著的双向波动溢出,除了利率对深圳市场的方向外,其他方向的波动溢出均存在着不对称性.     

法定存款准备金率的调整对我国股票市场影响效应的实证研究

作为货币政策的三大基本工具之一,法定存款准备金率一向被认为对于货币供给量有着强烈的收缩能力,在国外通常不会轻易使用。但我国进入2006年以来,中国人民银行频繁动作,短短几年间调整达24次之多。为何我国会如此频繁使用这一工具？这种政策的调整对股票市场影响如何？股票市场这一传导渠道是否畅通？针对这一系列问题,本文采用事件研究法、干预分析模型与GARCH簇模型相结合对2006年以来法定存款准备金率的24次调整对股票市场的影响进行了实证分析。研究发现：从短期来看,法定存款准备金率的调整对我国股市的影响非常微弱;但对银行板块却有比较显著的公告效应,并且这种效应具有一定的滞后性。同时对同等幅度的政策调整,银行板块的反应比大盘更为剧烈。从长期来看,法定存款准备金率的调整对股票市场及银行板块的影响是长期存在的。从波动性的反应来看,法定存款准备金率的调整能有效降低银行板块股价的波动性,但对整个大盘而言则影响甚微。     

中国债券市场与股票市场间波动溢出效应——基于SJC-Copula模型的分析

本文基于SJC-Copula模型分析债券市场和股票市场间的波动溢出效应,并以此进一步分析波动溢出效应对债券市场风险规避能力的影响。研究选取2003年3月31日至2009年8月31日中信标普国债指数日数据和上证指数日数据,验证了两市波动溢出效应的存在性,同时发现波动溢出效应显著增强了债券市场规避风险的能力。     

资产定价理论实证研究及其发展

迄今为止,学术界关于风险—收益关系的实证研究始终未能取得一致、稳健的结论。本文对当前国内外学术界的相关实证研究进行了全面的梳理和分类,根据实证结论将已有文献大致分成了三类：风险与收益正相关、风险与收益负相关以及风险与收益不相关或关系较为复杂。本文重点探讨了国内学术界的研究现状,并认为从行为角度出发进行风险与收益权衡关系的理论与实证研究是极具潜力的研究方向。     

Conditional Volatility of Equity Real Estate Investment Trust Returns: A Pre- and Post-1993 Comparison

We examine the dynamic behavior of Equity Real Estate Investment Trust (EREIT) volatility in a GARCH context 1972–2006 using monthly EREIT returns, and comparing volatility performance for “early” Equity REITs 1972–1992 with that of “modern” EREITs 1993–2006. Consistent with findings for conventional firms, we find that EREIT conditional volatility is time-varying, persistent, and predictable. There is a positive relationship between expected return and expected risk in EREIT stocks pre-1993, but the relationship disappears after 1993. We find no evidence that negative shocks affect EREIT volatility differently from positive ones in either time period. Different from reported results for conventional firms, we find that changes in the conditional volatility of fundamental macroeconomic variables have strong explanatory value for future changes in EREIT volatility. Finally, comparing EREIT volatility performance with volatility in the Russell 2000 Index, a proxy for small stocks, we find that EREIT volatility behaves differently from that of small stocks in many respects, indicating that risks in the small stock index cannot effectively proxy for risks in the EREIT market.