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- Title
An Empirical Investigation to the "Skew" Phenomenon in Stock Index Markets: Evidence from the Nikkei 225 and Others.
- Authors
Bai, Yizhou; Guo, Zhiyu
- Abstract
The skew processes have recently received much attention, owing to their capacity to describe controlled dynamics. In this paper, we employ the skew geometric Brownian motion (SGBM) to depict nine major stock index markets. The skew process not only shows us where the "support" and "resistance" levels are, but also how strong the force is. However, the densities of the skew processes make it challenging to estimate the parameters in a convenient manner. For the sake of overcoming this challenge, we adopt a Bayesian approach, which plays an important role in allowing us to estimate the parameters by conditional probability densities without having to evaluate complex integrals. Furthermore, we also propose the likelihood ratio tests and significance tests for the skew probability. In the empirical study, our findings reveal that skew phenomenon exists in the global stock markets and that the SGBM model works better than the traditional GBM model, as well as performing competitively, compared to the GBM-jump model (GBM-J) and Markov regime switching GBM model (GBM-MRS). In addition, we explore the possible reasons behind the skew phenomenon in stock markets, the price clustering phenomenon and herd behaviors can help to explain the skew phenomenon.
- Subjects
NIKKEI 225; STOCK exchanges; STOCK price indexes; LIKELIHOOD ratio tests; BROWNIAN motion; CONDITIONAL probability; DIVISION rings
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 24, p7219
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su11247219