Book Description
Major findings are; 1) Indian market behave asymmetric and proved leverage effectin all the three periods considered, whereas the Chinese market shows different leverage patterns with reverse asymmetry when crisis is accounted. 2) The trade-off between risk and return varies due to the different state of market. In pre-crisis period both the market evidenced positive risk-return trade off, as expected from the theory however in post-crisis Nifty return is negatively related to its volatility which is contrary to the theory. 3) The conditional volatility persisted for more days in Chinese market than Indian, the HL Calculator shows that Shanghai Composite takes more time to return back to its mean with long lasting impact evidenced in positive shocks, leading to reject the theoretical mechanism behind the asymmetry which says negative shocks increase conditional volatility substantially.
