This article examines the pattern of autocorrelation of daily stock index returns in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) by estimating the two variants of the EGARCH model by Nelson (1991). We confirm the findings by Sentana and Wadhwani (1992) and Koutmos (1997) that stock returns exhibit positive...

This article examines the relation between price volatility, trading volume and open interest for the Nikkei 225 stock index futures traded on the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) using the method developed by Bessembinder and Seguin (1993). The OSE regulation for trading of the Nikkei 225...