The EGARCH Effect Test of Chinese Stock Market from the Perspective of Behavioral Finance
Wenting Cao, Jiangyue Luo, Xiaojuan Wu
Jun 29, 2018
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Advances in Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: Chinese stock market's fluctuation is influenced by certainty effect and loss aversion, with bad news leading to greater price fluctuations than good news due to large retail investors' over-speculative, short-term behavior.
Abstract
Financial time series often tend to show obvious volatility clustering. Selecting the daily closing data of the Shanghai Composite Index from January 2008 to April 2018, we first test the ARCH effect, and then establish the EGARCH model adding asymmetric item to the conditional variance equation. Our findings indicate that in the past decade the fluctuation of China’s stock price has performed a long-lasting clustering phenomenon. At the same time, “bad news” causes the fluctuation of stock price to be greater than that of “good news”. The reason is that Chinese stock market is characterized by a large number of retail investors, and the investment income mainly comes from the bid-offer gaps of stock prices. Investors’ philosophy is over-speculative, short-term and herding. We combine the Prospect Theory of behavioral finance and find that Certainty Effect and Loss Aversion can well explain the empirical results of the EGARCH model.