Empirical study on relationship between persistence-free trading volume and stock return volatility

Wen Fenghua and Yang Xiaoguang

Global Finance Journal, 2009, vol. 20, issue 2, 119-127

Abstract: A large body of literature finds that the unexpected trading volume, which is obtained by filtering out time trend, autocorrelation, can be used as a proxy of the information flow and can explain the heteroskedasticity of stock return in some degrees. In this paper, we find that the heteroskedasticity exists in the unexpected trading volume, and we further generate a new information proxy by filtering out the heteroskedasticity from the unexpected trading volume, termed "persistence-free trading volume". Our empirical results indicate that the persistence-free trading volume can explain the heteroskedasticity of the return better than the unexpected trading volume; moreover, the explanatory power of the persistence-free trading volume is positively related to market maturity.

Keywords: Information; flow; Trading; volume; Heteroskedasticity; Persistence-free; trading; volume; Stock; return (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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