Informational Efficiency in Futures' Markets in India's National Stock Exchange

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Cong ◽  
Murugappa (Murgie) Krishnan
2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-49
Author(s):  
Bae Gi Hong ◽  
Su Jae Jang

This paper examines the information efficiency of KOSDAQ50 and KOSPI200 index futures markets. The study analyzes and compares both markets in three respects : 1) price discovery (lead-lag relationship between spot and futures markets.), 2) volatility-volume relationship, and 3) mispricings between spot and futures prices. The first, analysis shows the in the KOSPI200 market, futures price leads spot price. While spot price leads futures price in the KOSDAQ50 market. The second analysis shows that the volatility-volume relation is positive in the KOSPI200 futures market, supporting the hypothesis of mixture of distribution. In contrast, there is little relation between volume and volatility in the KOSDAQ50 futures market. This result casts doubt that the futures market price reflects information. The last analysis shows that the magnitude of mispricing becomes smaller with more volume in the KOSPI200 futures market, while it becomes larger with more volume in the KOSDAQ50 futures market. The overall results imply that the KOSDAQ50 futures market is less informationally efficient that the KOSPI200 market. The inefficiency appears due to the lack of institutional investor participation, especially securities firms, in making up the market.


1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Herbert

The natural gas futures market is fundamental to the current natural gas market both as means of price discovery and for price hedging. Thus, the informational efficiency of the futures market is an important issue. In this article we re-examine the informational efficiency of the natural gas futures market. In this re-examination several cash price series are considered. It is found that the natural gas futures market is informationally efficient for only one of the cash markets. The characteristics of the current natural gas market that might explain the estimated results are also discussed.


2002 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Chung Lin ◽  
Shen-Yuan Chen ◽  
Dar-Yeh Hwang ◽  
Chien-Fu Lin

By utilizing vector error correction model (VECM) and EGARCH model, this article uses 5-minute intraday data to examine the interaction of return and volatility between Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX) and the newly introduced TAIEX futures. VECM model shows that there exists bi-directional Granger causality between index spot and index futures markets, but spot market plays a more important role in price discovery. The results of impulse response function and information share indicate that most of the price discovery happens in index spot market. The evidence of EGRACH shows that the impacts of spot and futures innovations are asymmetrical, and the volatility spillovers between spot and futures markets are bi-directional. However, the information flow from spot to futures is stronger. These results suggest that the TAIEX spot market dominates the TAIEX futures market in terms of return and volatility.


2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1226-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pascal Bassino ◽  
Thomas Lagoarde-Segot

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