Dynamic correlations and distributions of stock returns on China's stock markets
Dynamic correlations and distributions of stock returns on China's stock markets
This paper investigates high frequency time-series features of stock returns and volatility on China's stock markets. The empirically observed probability distributions of log-returns are almost symmetric, highly leptokurtic, and characterized by a non-Gaussian profile for small index changes. Thus, the China's stock markets cannot be described by a random walk. We suggest that the correlation dynamics and stochastic changes of stock prices of China's stock markets are investigated by the Lorent