This paper investigates the influences of inception of Taiwan Index futures trading on the spot price volatility on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). The macroeconomic effects are controlled and the asymmetric response behaviour is studied. The empirical evidence shows that the trading of TAIEX...

This paper investigates the duration dynamics and relationship between price volatility and durations under different market trends for the Morgan Stanley Taiwan stock index futures traded on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). It is found that conditional durations are related to durations and...

This paper uses the wild bootstrap to compute empirically relevant critical values for the test statistics proposed by Emerson and Kao (2001). Monte Carlo simulations were then performed to evaluate the size and power properties of the bootstrapped tests.