Download or read book The Behaviour of Australian Stock Market Volatility written by Tim Brallsford and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australian Financial Market Volatility written by Tro Kortian and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the behaviour of daily asset price movements in Australian bond, share and foreign exchange markets over the period 1987 to 1996, and addresses four questions concerning volatility and international market linkages. First, is there evidence of a trend increase in volatility in Australian financial markets? Second, have Australia's financial markets become more responsive to developments in counterpart foreign markets, and if so, what are the predominant foreign influences? Third, have international influences been more or less important than domestic cross-market influences? Fourth, is there evidence of directionality and other asymmetries in Australian financial market volatility? The paper finds no compelling evidence to suggest the presence of a trend increase in volatility over the period. Evidence does exist, however, of quite significant cross-country 'contagion' or 'spillover' effects on Australia's bond and equity markets. For both of these markets, the predominant foreign market influence appears to be the US. Australian bond and share market volatility is found to be higher in bear markets than in bull markets, and higher following a market fall than a market rise. Evidence supporting the presence of asymmetries in the correlation of volatilities across markets is also documented.

Download or read book Modelling Australian Stock Market Volatility written by Indika Karunanayake and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modelling Australian Stock Market Volatility written by Tim Brailsford and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volatility Spillover Between the Chinese and Australian Stock Markets written by Wei Chi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the increasingly tight economic relationship between China and Australia, little attention has been paid to the analysis of stock market volatility spillover across these two countries. This paper, based on industry data, fills the gap in the literature and provides a clear idea of the channels through which volatility is transmitted across countries. This paper finds that the volatility spillover across these two markets is bidirectional while there is single or insignificant spillover across industries between these two countries. More specifically, the results of the Granger causality test show that the stock market volatility spillover is bidirectional between these two markets in the financial, health care, industrials, information technology, and materials industries. One-way volatility spillover exists in the consumer staples industry and there is insignificant volatility spillover in the energy, telecommunications, and utilities industries between the Chinese and Australian stock markets.

Download or read book Institutional Versus Retail Traders written by Marvin Wee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the thesis is to examine the trading behaviour and characteristics of retail and institutional traders on the Australian Stock Exchange. There are three aspects of these traders that are of particular interest to this study: (1) the information content of their trades, (2) their order placement strategies, and (3) the impact of their trading on share price volatility. Trades made on the basis of private information such as those by institutional traders are found to be associated with larger permanent price changes while trades by uninformed traders such as retail traders are found to be associated with smaller changes. In addition, institutional trades are found to have smaller total price effect compared to retail trades suggesting retail traders incur higher market impact costs. In order to profit from potentially short-lived information advantage, informed traders are expected to place more aggressive orders. The analysis of the order price aggressiveness showed institutions are more aggressive than other traders. In addition, retail traders are found to be less aware of the state of the market when placing aggressive orders. The analysis of the limit order book found significant differences between the contributions of institutional and retail traders to the depth of the limit-order book, with retail standing limit orders further from the market. This is consistent with the conjecture that uninformed traders such as retail traders have greater expected adverse selection costs. The effect of trading by retail and institutional traders on price volatility are also investigated. There is some evidence that retail traders are more active and institutional traders are proportionally less active after periods of high volatility. Also, the effect of the order activity from different trader types on volatility differs depending on the measure of order activity used.

Download or read book Australian Stock Market Volatility 1875 1987 written by Phillip Kearns and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volatility Spillover Between the US Chinese and Australian Stock Markets written by Emawtee Bissoondoyal-Bheenick and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We assess the stock market volatility spillover between three closely related countries, United States, China and Australia. This study considers industry data and hence provides a clear idea of the channels through which volatility is transmitted across these countries. We find that there is significant bilateral causality between the countries at the market index level and across most of the industries for the full sample period from July 2007 to May 2016. There is one way volatility spillover from US to China in the financial services, industrials, consumer discretionary and utilities industry. There is insignificant volatility spillover from the Australian to Chinese stock markets in financial services, telecommunications and energy industries. Once we remove the effect of the GFC, we find significant bilateral relationship across all of the industries across the three countries.

Download or read book Do Index Futures Cause Spot Market Volatility An Investigation of the Australian Resources Index written by Neha Deo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper applies GARCH models to ascertain the impact of index futures trading on the volatility of the spot market. Specifically, the research aims to determine whether the introduction of index futures trading increases or decreases the level of volatility within the underlying spot market. In addition, the research verifies the sensitivity of price to information as well as the impact the leverage effect may have on the degree and structure of volatility. As Australia is a commodity driven economy, resources constitute one of the largest economic sectors. Following from this, the daily closing price of the ASX 200 Resources Index for the period 2010 to 2016 was therefore used in the analysis. Given that 14 October 2013 was when the Australian Securities Exchange launched the ASX 200 Resources Index futures, investigating the volatility prior to and after this date is also a focus of the paper. The results of the study suggest that the introduction of index futures did not substantially increase the level of volatility in the spot market but found that there is an increase in sensitivity to historical information; and that a negative leverage effect exists within the Resources Index. Since the Australian share market operates within a dynamic financial landscape, the study adopts a framework that seeks to provide behavioural and macroeconomic explanations for the findings, where appropriate.

Download or read book The Pricing of Idiosyncratic Volatility written by Bin Liu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the importance of idiosyncratic volatility in asset pricing for Australian stock returns from January 2002 to December 2010. Inspired by work from the early 1990s which found that portfolios constructed to mimic common risk factors explained significant variations in US stock returns, we construct an idiosyncratic volatility mimicking factor to explore the explanatory power of this factor in the Australian stock market. Our results indicate that (a) the idiosyncratic volatility mimicking factor is priced and positively related to the stock returns for the sample period, (b) the explanatory power of the idiosyncratic volatility mimicking factor remains robust in both time-series and cross-sectional analysis, and (c) big size stocks are systematically riskier than small size stocks.

Download or read book Trading Volume Realized Volatility and Jumps on the Australian Stock Market written by Hassan Shahzad and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the volume-volatility relation by splitting volume into the number of trades and the average trade size at individual and institutional level, and realized volatility into its continuous and jump components. We find that the number of trades is the most important variable driving realized volatility. The number of trades by the individual investors carries more explanatory power in explaining volatility compared to the number of trades by institutional investors. The average trade size cannot be entirely disregarded, though; its importance compared to the number of trades is limited. Order imbalance plays a minimal role in driving volatility.

Download or read book Stock Market Volatility written by Greg N. Gregoriou and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-Date Research Sheds New Light on This Area Taking into account the ongoing worldwide financial crisis, Stock Market Volatility provides insight to better understand volatility in various stock markets. This timely volume is one of the first to draw on a range of international authorities who offer their expertise on market volatility in devel

Download or read book Pricing Behaviour in Australian Financial Futures Markets written by Malcolm L. Edey and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Implied Volatility of Australian Index Options written by Sean Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We construct a new measure of Australian stock market volatility based on the implied volatility of Samp;P/ASX Index options. Dubbed the Australian Market Volatility Index (AVIX), it is constructed in a manner similar to the popular CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) in the United States. We examine the statistical properties of AVIX and the temporal relationship between AVIX changes and Samp;P/ASX 200 Index returns, and also investigate the presence of any seasonalities in AVIX before assessing AVIX as a predictor of future volatility. Consistent with VIX, we find that AVIX exhibits large negative first-order autocorrelation, and is also negatively correlated with lagged and contemporaneous Samp;P/ASX 200 Index returns. However, AVIX exhibits no asymmetry in its response to positive and negative return shocks. As a predictor of future volatility, AVIX performs poorly compared to historical volatility. Interestingly, when nonsynchronous trading is controlled for, we find that AVIX exhibits a much stronger relationship with future volatility.

Download or read book Australian Banking Risk written by Marianne Gizycki and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The likelihood of a bank failing, within a given period of time, is a function of the variability in its income and its ability to withstand losses. These determinants depend, in turn, on the volatility of the return on bank assets and the bank's level of capital. Although accounting measures of the volatility of the rate of return on bank assets and bank capital-asset ratios are published on a regular basis, market prices provide alternative risk measures. This paper uses share prices to estimate these risks measures for 15 Australian banks that were listed on the Australian Stock Exchange for all, or part of, the period 1983 to 1998. Option prices are also used to generate alternative estimates of these risk measures, the results of which corroborate those obtained from share prices. We find that the market's assessment of the capital-asset ratio for the Australian banking sector has risen considerably over the sample period. There has also been a slight upward trend in the volatility of asset returns. These two trends have opposite effects on the market's assessment of total bank risk: rising capital-asset ratios reduce bank risk, but rising asset volatility increases it. To uncover which trend has dominated, we examine a couple of measures of total bank risk, which summarises the net impact of movements in both the capital-asset ratio and asset volatility. These additional risk measures suggest that the riskiness of the sector has declined. In investigating the relationship between banks' capital-asset ratio and asset volatility over time, we find that increases in the growth of the capital-asset ratio precede increases in asset volatility which, in turn, cause a slowdown in capital growth.

Download or read book The Low Volatility Anomaly in Australian Stock Returns written by Joshua Bay and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper demonstrates that the low volatility anomaly exists in Australian stock returns. Consistent with previous literature on other countries, low realized volatility stocks earn superior risk-adjusted returns than high realized volatility stocks. Our key findings show value-weighted portfolios formed from ASX 300 and ASX All Ords stocks trading the low volatility anomaly have statistically significant annual returns. Not only is this anomaly highly persistent against size, value and momentum factors, but its effect seems to be accentuated in stocks that have larger market capitalization, lower book-to-market ratio and are past winner stocks. Finally, our findings show that the low volatility effect is statistically significant for portfolio holding periods up to 12 months in larger capitalization stocks and robust against a sub-period analysis.

Download or read book The Information Content of Implied Volatility written by Bart Frijns and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we develop and evaluate the information content of an implied volatility index for the Australian stock market. Using price data on Samp;P/ASX 200 index options and SFE SPI 200 index futures options, we develop implied volatility indices with a time to maturity of three months and one month, respectively. When evaluating the information content of both implied volatility indices we find that the implied volatility index based on the Samp;P/ASX 200 index options with a three-month horizon is most informative in terms of explaining stock market returns and forecasting future volatility. For this implied volatility index we find a significant negative and asymmetric relationship between changes in implied volatility and Samp;P/ASX 200 returns, i.e., stock market prices decline more when implied volatility increases than they increase when implied volatility drops. When evaluating the forecasting power of implied volatility for future market volatility we find that the implied volatility index based on the Samp;P/ASX 200 index options contains important information both insample and out-of-sample. In-sample, the implied volatility index significantly improves the fit of a GJR-GARCH(1, 1) model. Out-of-sample, we find that the implied volatility index significantly outperforms the RiskMetrics and GJR-GARCH(1, 1) model, with its highest forecasting power at the one-month forecasting horizon.