This paper reinvestigates the predictability of equity market index returns of Chinese Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite index (SSEC) using the changes in oil prices. We find significant oil effect on the predictability of SSEC returns after the year 2003. The effect can neither be explained by...

This paper proposes a latent factor approach based on a state-space framework in order to identify which factor, if any, dominates price fluctuations in the Chinese stock markets. We also illustrate the connection of such stock price decomposition with several general equilibrium asset pricing...

Using daily stock return data of all listed firms in Chinese stock market from 1998 to 2018, we disaggregate the volatility of common stocks at the market, industry and firm levels. We find market volatility, on average, is the highest while firm volatility tends to lead to market and industry...

We investigate all listed firms in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock Exchanges on extreme market movement days over 2010 to 2017, and highlight the important role of price limit on post extreme day stock returns. Utilising daily cash flow data of the largest trading group as a proxy of institutional...

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. economic variables on the time variation of Chinese stock market volatility. We find that several U.S. economic variables such as the dividend price ratio, dividend yield and industrial production strongly forecast the future monthly volatilities of...