On Chinese stock markets: How have they evolved along time?

Abstract

China is the largest emerging capital market with a unique setup: it issues simultaneously both (i) Class A shares addressed to Chinese domestic investors, and (ii) Class B Shares addressed to foreign investors. After Chinese stock resumed the operation, they feature dramatic fluctuations due to policy changes and over-speculative activity of individual investors. This paper aims to analyse the evolution of both the Shanghai A and B Markets through a Markov-Switching asymmetric GARCH in four different time frames. Keywords: China stock market; Markov-Switching asymmetric GARCH; volatility