Stock Market Volatility and Economic Factors

This paper examines the ability of rational economic factors to explain stock market volatility. A simple model of the economy under uncertainty identifies four determinants of stock market volatility: uncertainty about the price level, the riskless rate of interest, the risk premium on equity and the ratio of expected profits to expected revenues. In initial tests these variables have significant explanatory power and account for over 50 per cent of the variation in market volatility from 1929 to 1989. When the regression coefficients are allowed to vary over time using cluster regression, the four factors explain over 90 per cent of the variation in market volatility. The results are useful in explaining the past behavior of stock market volatility and in forecasting future volatility.     

Exploiting International Stock Market Correlations with Open-end International Mutual Funds

Investors can exploit the correlations between international stock markets by trading no-load, open-end, international mutual funds. These investors in effect cheat passive investors because they buy the mutual funds at their net asset values, which do not reflect information released during the US trading day. The strategy we examine yields an annual rate of return 800 basis points above the S&P500, over a period of almost eight years.     

中国股市波动率的双重不对称性及其解释——基于MS-TGARCH模型的MCMC估计和分析

本文应用MCMC方法估计了上证综指的MS-TGARCH模型,并得出中国股市的波动率存在双重不对称性。其一,每个波动状态中,中国股市的波动率都存在不对称性,其中高波动状态的波动率对好消息的反应显著大于坏消息,而低波动状态则刚好相反;其二,不同状态之间,中国股市波动率的不对称性刚好相反,并且高波动状态伴随着显著大于0的平均收益率。最后,本文从投资者心理、行为以及中国经济大环境等角度进行了解释。     

Market Structure and Return Volatility: Evidence from the Hong Kong Stock Market

There is no consensus about the cause for higher volatility at the market open than at the market close in the U.S. market. As an order–driven, nonspecialist market, the Hong Kong stock market provides a useful setting for an examination. If halt of trade were the major cause of higher open–to–open volatility, the open–to–open volatility in the Hong Kong market would be higher. However, this is not observed. The autocorrelation of the open–to–open return series also indicates that the temporary price deviation at the market opening is not significant. We view these findings as consistent with the specialist argument.     

The Effect of Market Transparency: Volatility and Liquidity in the Korean Stock Market

Faced with unprecedented competition, stock markets should have fairness and transparency. The effects of market transparency for the stock market volatility and liquidity will be investigated using the case of the Korean stock market. The evidence from this study indicates that increasing the market transparency makes the price discovery process more efficient than before from the viewpoint of stock market volatility, and increases the stock market liquidity compared with before.     

美国不确定性冲击对全球股市波动的影响研究

选取2000—2021年美国经济、金融、经济政策和地缘风险四类不确定性指数以及全球GDP排行前15国家股市收益率数据,基于多维不确定性冲击框架,运用单因子、双因子和多因子混频波动率GARCH-MIDAS模型,从样本内拟合与样本外预测两个方面实证考察美国不确定性冲击对全球主要国家股市波动的差异化影响。研究表明：美国经济不确定性和金融不确定性对多数国家股市长期波动均有正向推动作用,其中,美国金融不确定性的影响最为广泛;美国金融不确定性是影响中国股市长期波动的主要因素,且中美贸易摩擦主要通过美国金融不确定性传导;美国经济政策不确定性上升会增加俄罗斯和墨西哥股市长期波动,美国地缘风险对意大利股市长期波动存在显著正向影响。     

股指期货与现货市场的关系研究

本文从市场结构、交易执行效率和市场信息传播三个方面，由浅入深地展开了期现货市场关系的梳理和分析。股指期货市场的出现，一是使得原本现货市场单轨运行的市场结构变为了期现货市场双轨运行的新结构，增加了市场稳定性；二是依托期货交易方式的独特机制，大大提高了交易执行效率；三是期货价格也因此包含了更多内容，促进了市场信息的传播与扩散。同时，股指期货的独特设计使得其非常适合在危机条件下充分发挥功能，是一个重要的风险管理工具，已经成为现代资本市场的重要组成部分和基础性的内在稳定机制。     

The Structure of the Japanese Stock Market

The Japanese stock market is characterized by two prominent features. First, stock prices have been extremely volatile over the past ten years. Second, the market is dominated by cross-shareholdings and stagnant individual stock ownership. So, there are two purposes on this paper. The first is to assess the effects of stock cross-holdings on the stock market. The second is to look at recent stock price fluctuations, in the bubble period before 1990 and during the subsequent collapse. It will be recognized that these two features are interrelated.     

US, UK and European Stock Market Integration

Abstract:   This paper examines long‐run convergence between US, UK and seven European stock markets. We report evidence to suggest that while real short‐run diversification gains may occur, in general they tend to be short‐lived. However we also find that US and UK markets are relatively less bound to a common trend, which would imply that increased stock market merger activity, and any transition to the European common currency by the UK, may lead to relatively large stock market adjustments as markets adapt to these institutional changes.     

央行汇率沟通与股票市场波动

本文基于2005年7月至2017年2月的日度数据,检验中国央行汇率沟通对于股票市场波动率的影响,研究结果发现:(1)央行汇率沟通会对本国股票市场产生明显的溢出效应,并显著增加股票市场的波动率,B股市场波动率反应程度显著强于A股市场。(2)书面沟通的效果强于口头沟通,口头沟通中行长沟通效果强于非行长沟通;汇率贬值的沟通效果显著强于汇率升值沟通。(3)汇率沟通对于股票市场波动率的影响存在着明显的非线性。     

融资融券对我国股市波动性的影响

本文采集股价指数月收益率和融资融券交易额每月日平均变化率的数据,针对融资融券对我国股市波动性的影响,进行实证检验,并对结果做进一步的解释。     

Macroeconomic Determinants of European Stock Market Volatility

In this paper we investigate whether macroeconomic variability can explain time variation in European stock market volatility. We find that unlike the documented case of the USA, in many cases, the time variation in stock market volatility is found to be significantly affected by the past variability of either monetary or real macroeconomic factors. Our findings have important implications for capital and portfolio allocations.     

信用缺失是中国股市最突出的问题

股市的特殊性，决定了它的不确定性和信息不对称更为严重，道德风险更为突出，因而信用更为重要。信用是维持股市正常运行的基础，没有信用就没有股市。当前我国股市最突出的问题当属信用缺失，出路就在于重建股市信用秩序，形成市场自身的信用基础。     

中国股票市场运行状况的理论分析

中国股市的市场化改革是大势所趋，但又不能操之过急，更不能脱离中国实际。脱离实际的管理理论和管理实践其后果是极其严重的，近年来股票市场的运行态势已经充分证明了这一点。现阶段的重要工作就是，真实评价近年来中国股市的状况，调整监管与发展的思路，纠正认识上的偏差，恢复投资者的信心，制订合理的政策措施，控制潜在的金融风险，从根本上引导中国股市走出低谷。     

Insider Trading in the Hong Kong Stock Market

Many previous studies on insider trading are based ondata in the U.S. capital market and conclude thatinsiders can earn abnormal profits. This paperexamines abnormal price performance associated withinsider trading in the Hong Kong stock market. We findthat abnormal profits associated with insider tradingare all concentrated on small firms. Trading volumedoes matter in determining the magnitude of thoseabnormal profits. Our results show that insiders ofmedium-sized and large firms do not earn abnormalprofits. Finally, it is found that outsiders who mimicthe information of insider trades associated withmedium-sized and large firms cannot earn abnormalprofits.     

美国股票市场结构演进及监管政策的启示

本文简要概述了美国资本市场结构演讲的历程，重点分析了美国监管机构对证券市场结构的设计和监管具体政策，强调促进市场竞争是提高市场效率和保护投资者利益的重要手段，监管政策主导市场结构的改革应该从确立正确目标开始，权衡市场各方利益，考虑既得利益及技术惯性因素，循序渐进地实施，以确保改革的成功。     

Tactical Asset Allocation and Stock Issuance in the Korean Stock Market

Stock issuance predicts future stock returns in the Korean market. This creates profitable trading opportunities. Abnormal returns exist in the zero-cost portfolio that short the firms issuing large numbers of shares and longs those issuing small numbers of shares. Their average abnormal return is 12 percent per annum, which is highly significant even after controlling for market, size, value, and momentum factors as well as transaction costs. The authors suggest the possibility of fixed costs in equity market timing. Only the sizable benefit from market timing over fixed costs motivates firms to increase net equity shares.     

Auditor Concentration: A Replication and Extension for the UK Audit Market 1991–1995

This paper examines the issue of auditor concentration in the UK during the period from 1991 to 1995. It shows that in 1995 the Big Six held 75% of the total number of audits and collectively earned 92% of the total audit fees. There was only a small increase in auditor concentration during the five year period, resulting from companies switching from small audit firms to Big Six and newly listed companies choosing a Big Six firm. The paper also examines auditor concentration within industries. Finally, the study assesses the measurement methods most commonly used in auditor concentration studies.     

Expectations,Behavior, and Stock Market Volatility

Stock market volatility is caused by investors’ expectations and behavior. To study the implication relationship, on the one hand, we present an investor’s expectation-forming and decision-making model to summarize the key features of individual behavior. We think the individual expectation is determined mainly by the number of differences between positive signals and negative signals in the information flow. The behavior is determined by both the expectations of investors around him (her) and the expected returns from a potential action. On the other hand, we simulate an investor community to verify if the model is able to replicate the related stylized facts. Mainly, three conclusions are drawn from the simulation: (1) A relationship of asymmetrical conditional dependence exists between expectation consistency and behavior consistency. (2) Market volatility is caused mainly by the difference between expectation consistency and behavior consistency. As the density of connections in the investor community network increases, the difference between them grows. (3) Influential investors have profound impacts on the formation of normal investors’ expectations and behavior. Thus influential investors play an important role in determining the degree of market volatility.     

我国股票市场的财富效应分析

股市可以形成一定的虚拟财富效应,对刺激有效需求能产生正效应。而股市的实际财富效应取决于股市行情上涨对企业投资的传导,这一点又受制于股票市场规模、股市上涨持续的时间以及市场的有效性。