Intraday trading volume and international spillover effects

Syed Mujahid Hussain

Research in International Business and Finance, 2011, vol. 25, issue 2, 183-194

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explore whether lagged trading activity in one market contributes to the return and volatility process in other markets, using 5-min concurrent data from German and British equity market. Our results lend support to our initial premise that if international investors have access to the same information set as domestic traders, then after observing foreign trading activity, market makers adjust prices to reflect their expectation of the security value, conditional upon all available information, including prior trades. Our findings clearly indicate that intraday trading volume contains predictive power for cross-border return and volatility processes. Moreover, these volume effects are found to be asymmetric in the sense that the impact of positive volume changes upon foreign stock market volatility is greater than is the impact of negative changes.

Keywords: Intraday; Conditional; mean; Conditional; volatility; Trading; volume; Asymmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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