• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.309-318
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• 2004

We consider a nonlinear AR-ARCH type process subject to Markov-switching and give sufficient conditions for geometric ergodicity of the process. Existence of moments is also obtained.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.165-187
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• 2005

This paper tries to investigate the relationships among stock return volatility, time-varying risk premium and Korea Discount. Using Korean Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) return from January 4, 1980 to August 31, 2005, this study finds possible links between time-varying risk premium and Korea Discount. First of all, this study classifies Korean stock returns during the sample period by three regime-switching volatility period that is to say, low-volatile period medium-volatile period and highly-volatile period by estimating Markov-Switching ARCH model. During the highly volatile period of Korean stock return (09/01/1997-05/31/2001), the estimated time-varying unit risk premium from the jump-diffusion GARCH model was 0.3625, where as during the low volatile period (01/04/1980-l1/30/1985), the time-varying unit risk premium was estimated 0.0284 from the jump diffusion GARCH model, which was about thirteen times less than that. This study seems to find the evidence that highly volatile Korean stock market may induce large time-varying risk premium from the investors and this may lead to Korea discount.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.17-39
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• 2015

This study examined the structural changes and volatility in the global stock markets using a Markov Regime Switching ARCH model developed by the Hamilton and Susmel (1994). Firstly, the US, Italy and Ireland showed that variance in the high volatility regime was more than five times that in the low volatility, while Korea, Russia, India, and Greece exhibited that variance in the high volatility regime was increased more than eight times that in the low. On average, a jump from regime 1 to regime 2 implied roughly three times increased in risk, while the risk during regime 3 was up to almost thirteen times than during regime 1 over the study period. And Korea, the US, India, Italy showed ARCH(1) and ARCH(2) effects, leverage and asymmetric effects. Secondly, 278 days were estimated in the persistence of low volatility regime, indicating that the mean transition probability between volatilities exhibited the highest long-term persistence in Korea. Thirdly, the coefficients appeared to be unstable structural changes and volatility for the stock markets in Chow tests during the Asian, Global and European financial crisis. In addition, 1-Step prediction error tests showed that stock markets were unstable during the Asian crisis of 1997-1998 except for Russia, and the Global crisis of 2007-2008 except for Korea and the European crisis of 2010-2011 except for Korea, the US, Russia and India. N-Step tests exhibited that most of stock markets were unstable during the Asian and Global crisis. There was little change in the Asian crisis in CUSUM tests, while stock markets were stable until the late 2000s except for some countries. Also there were stable and unstable stock markets mixed across countries in CUSUMSQ test during the crises. Fourthly, I confirmed a close relevance of the volatility between Korea and other countries in the stock markets through the likelihood ratio tests. Accordingly, I have identified the episode or events that generated the high volatility in the stock markets for the financial crisis, and for all seven stock markets the significant switch between the volatility regimes implied a considerable change in the market risk. It appeared that the high stock market volatility was related with business recession at the beginning in 1990s. By closely examining the history of political and economical events in the global countries, I found that the results of Lamoureux and Lastrapes (1990) were consistent with those of this paper, indicating there were the structural changes and volatility during the crises and specificly every high volatility regime in SWARCH-L(3,2) student t-model was accompanied by some important policy changes or financial crises in countries or other critical events in the international economy. The sophisticated nonlinear models are needed to further analysis.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.203-220
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• 1996

본 연구에서는 우리나라 채권시장의 변동성 분석과 추정을 위하여 Markov-Switching ARCH (SWARCH)모형과 GMM모형 및 I-GARCH모형을 적용하였다. 관측된 자료는 1993년 1월에서부터 1996년 4월까지의 주별 91일물 양도성 예금증서 수익률이다. 본 연구에서 채권 수익률 분산과정의 추정을 위해 사용하는 SWARCH 모형은 경제나 채권시장의 국면전환으로 말미암아 채권수익률의 변동성이 이질적인 분포에서 오는 경우 서로 다른 분산 국면의 확률적 식별이 가능할 뿐만 아니라 지속성이 GARCH모형보다 작아서 조건부 변동성의 예측력이 뛰어난 모형으로 알려져 있다. 또한 SWARCH모형은 베이즈이론에 의한 확률의 개념으로 국면전환을 추정하기 때문에 주관적인 국면전환시점의 판단이 불필요하다는 장점을 가진다 여러 가지 모형들의 추정결과 I-GARCH 모형과 SWARCH 모형등이 우리나라 단기 채권수익률의 조건부 변동성을 비교적 잘 설명해 내는 것으로 나타났으며 우리나라 단기 채권시장은 1993년 6월부터 1993년 12월초까지, 1994년 7월경부터 1995년 5월경까지 비교적 높은 변동성을 유지하였으며 그후로는 변동성이 등락을 계속하는 것으로 추정되었다. 본 연구의 결과 아직은 태동단계에 머물러 있는 한국 채권시장의 시계열적 특성을 체계적으로 문서화하고 정교하고 다양한 최근 계량기법을 체계적으로 정리하고 응용하여 시장 참가자들의 기회비용과 시행착오의 기간을 단축시키는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.