Nonlinear Mean Reversion and Arbitrage in the Gold Futures Market

Jeng-Bau Lin (), Jin-Ming Liang () and Chin-Chia Liang ()
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Jeng-Bau Lin: Department of Business Administration, National Chung-Hsing University
Jin-Ming Liang: Department of Information Management, Hsing Kuo University of Management
Chin-Chia Liang: Department of Business Administration, National Chung-Hsing University

Economics Bulletin, 2008, vol. 6, issue 9, 1-11

Abstract: Previous literatures take transaction costs as being negligible when analyzing the futures basis behavior in linear dynamic framework. However, we argue that the relationship between the futures and spot prices with the conventional linear cointegration approach may not be appropriate after taking transaction costs into account. In this paper, an incorporation of transaction costs presented by Dumas (1992) and Michael (1997) into the exponential smooth transition autoregressive (ESTAR) model developed by Granger and Terasvita (1993) is motivated to examine the dynamic relationship between daily gold futures and spot prices and the nonlinear behavior of the gold futures basis. Transaction costs may lead to the existence of neutral band for futures market speculation within which profitable trading opportunities are impossible. Further, our results indicate that the ESTAR model provides higher forecasting power than the linear AR(1) model.

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Date: 2008-03-05
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