The Causal Relationship Between Exchange Market Volatility And The Futures Market Cover Image

Döviz Piyasa Oynaklığı İle Vadeli İşlem Piyasası Arasındaki Nedensellik İlişkisi
The Causal Relationship Between Exchange Market Volatility And The Futures Market

Author(s): Letife Özdemir, Veysel Kula
Subject(s): Economy, Financial Markets
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Foreign Exchange Market Volatility; Futures Markets; GARCH Models; Granger Causality Test;

Summary/Abstract: Futures contracts are widely considered by investors in their decision to manage risk better by hedgeing against risks that arise as a result of fluctuations in financial markets. The aim of this study is to investigate the causality relationship between exchange market volatility and the futures market. To model the exchange market volatility, two symmetric (ARCH and GARCH) models and one asymmetric (EGARCH) model were used as the conditionally variance models. EGARH (1,1) was selected as the most suitable model to represent the exchange market volatility in the study where the dollar selling price and the dollar futures contract settlement price are used as in put data. The selection of the EGARCH model shows that the volatility in exchange markets is asymmetric to positive and negative shocks. Granger causality test was applied to see whether there was a causal relationship between exchange market volatility and the futures market in the study. According to the findings of the study, there is a bidirectional causality relation between the foreign exchange market volatility and the futures market. This result suggests that the futures market and the exchange market in Turkey are complementary markets, and that the flow of information between the two markets is rapidly taking place.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 618-636
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish