Price limits and volatility

Saikat Sovan Deb, Petko S Kalev and Vijaya B Marisetty

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2017, vol. 45, issue C, 142-156

Abstract: This study provides new evidence on efficacy of daily price limit rules. We propose use of propensity score matching techniques to reduce sample selection bias in widely used Kim and Rhee (1997). Using data from the Tokyo Stock Exchange over a period of 5years from January 2001 to December 2005, this study shows that price limit rules work quite efficiently for lower limit hits as there is no evidence of volatility spill-over. We also find that daily price limits have differential effects on permanent and transitory components of daily volatility. Our study reports evidence of spill-over of permanent volatility. However, we find price limit successfully curbs the transitory volatility on the post limit hit days.

Keywords: Price limit rules; Permanent and transitory volatility; Post limit hit day; Propensity score matching; Volatility spill over (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927538X16302840
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:45:y:2017:i:c:p:142-156

DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2016.12.002

Access Statistics for this article

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is currently edited by K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee

More articles in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().