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Friday, September 7, 2012

PRICE RELATIONSHIPS AND VOLATILITY TRANSMISSIONS BETWEEN STOCK INDEX AND STOCK INDEX FUTURES IN MALAYSIA, HONG KONG AND JAPAN


ABSTRACT

This study tries to investigate the price relationships and volatility transmissions between stock index and stock index futures in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan. The results show that there are feedback effects in the domestic price relationships between the spot and futures markets. In addition, the results present evidence that asymmetric effects exist in all markets and the volatility persistence in each markets is high. Finally, the overall conditional correlation estimates for spot and futures markets in these three countries are higher compared to the unconditional correlation estimates.

Keywords:       spot-futures, lead-lags, volatility, VAR GJR-GARCH, Asian financial markets.


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