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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2012, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (5): 31-37.

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Examining the Leverage Effect in China’s Stock Markets: A New Approach

CHEN Yong-wei   

  1. School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
  • Received:2011-07-27 Revised:2012-08-06 Online:2012-10-29 Published:2012-10-27

Abstract: The asymmetric relationship between stock return and volatility in financial research. An unbalanced seemingly unrelated regression model is proposed in this paper to examine the individual firms’ stock return volatility. It is discovered that the volatility of Shenzhen constituent stocks show the reversed leverage effects. Compared with the Component Index, which exposes insignificant leverage effect, we find the impact of market factors on volatility asymmetry is found. Specifically, there exits common factors and idiosyncratic factors in stock market, that should account for the difference between the Component Index and the constituent volatility. After removing the effect of common factors, the reversed leverage effect is more significantly.

Key words: return, volatility, leverage effect, SUR

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