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A Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Examination of the Relationship between Trading Volume and Conditional Volatility in the Tunisian Stock Market: Evidence for the Information Flow Paradigm
- Source :
- International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 354-364 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper empirically examines the relationship between trading volume and conditional volatility of returns in the Tunisian stock market within the framework of the mixture of distribution hypothesis (MDH) and the sequential information arrival hypothesis (SIAH). Through this study, we especially aim to test the volatility persistence degree without volume, with contemporaneous volume, and with lagged volume. Our empirical analysis is based on daily data related to the 43 most active and dynamic securities traded from January 2, 2008 to June 29, 2012. Our daily analysis reveals several results. Firstly, we confirm the strong positive relationship between trading volume and returns conditional volatility issued from generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH (1,1)) model. Secondly, according to the theoretical predictions of the MDH, we show that including contemporaneous trading volume in the conditional variance equation significantly reduces volatility persistence. Thirdly, through the addition of the lagged volume in the conditional variance equation, we show that volatility persistence remains in the whole at a high level and close to that obtained from the GARCH (1,1) model without trading volume, and also at a higher level than that resulting from the addition of the contemporaneous volume. Our results thus do not support the implications of the SIAH.
- Subjects :
- trading volume
lcsh:HB71-74
lcsh:Economics as a science
lcsh:Business
jel:C22
jel:G12
conditional volatility
jel:G13
jel:C58
jel:G10
Trading Volume, Conditional Volatility, Mixture of Distribution Hypothesis, Sequential Information Arrival Hypothesis, Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity, Volatility Persistence, Information flow
jel:G17
jel:G14
garch
jel:G15
information flow
volatility persistence
sequential information arrival hypothesis
mixture of distribution hypothesis
lcsh:HF5001-6182
Subjects
Details
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..688eddeaef844d2c9fada0cea52dd665