A Study on the Relationship between Stock Index Futures and Stock Index - Emperical Case of Taiwan Stock Index

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 國際企業管理研究所 === 86 === The study takes the SIMEX Taiwan Stock Index Futures and Taiwan Stock Index as the objectives. The major purpose focused on examine the relationship between these two markets'' prices, discussing the causal...

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Main Authors: Chen, Mei-Chuan, 陳美娟
Other Authors: Lee Yuan-Ho
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 1998
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43256522725399775183
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Summary:碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 國際企業管理研究所 === 86 === The study takes the SIMEX Taiwan Stock Index Futures and Taiwan Stock Index as the objectives. The major purpose focused on examine the relationship between these two markets'' prices, discussing the causality between these two markets with VAR( Vector Auto-Regressive) model, and providing some suggestions for investing in these two markets. The data was covered from Jan. 9, 1997 through Mar. 16, 1998, with total 332 sets of market price data. The results showed that the closing index of Taiwan Stock Index Futures andthe opening index of Taiwan Stock Index existed a co-integration. From the lagof the VAR model, we found that the closing index of Futures and the closing index of Stock showed a feedback relationship; the closing index of Futures ledthe first period and the 5th period of opening index of Futures; the closingindex of Futures led the 2nd period and the 5th period of opening index ofStock; the closing index of Stock and the opening index of Futures wereindependent; and the opening index of Futures led the 4th period of openingindex of Stock. From the Decomposition of Variance analysis, we found that no matter whichTaiwan Stock Index Futures opening and closing Index or Taiwan Stock Index opening and closing index were mainly affected by the closing index of Taiwan Stock Index Futures. From the impulse response function analysis, we found that only the closing index of Taiwan Stock Index Futures showed a positiveresponse, indexes showed both positive and negative response.