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Impact of Trading Activity on Price Volatility: Case of Tunisian Stock Market

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  • Mohamed Rafaa Chebbi
  • Sana Ayachi Jebnoun

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This paper aims at examining how trading activity impacts price volatility. We propose first to estimate the return volatility following Jones, Kaul and Lipson (1994) and Chan and Fong (2000). Second, we will attempt to detect the best measure of the trading activity that better explains the price volatility. For this reason, we use a sample of 48 listed firms in the Tunisian Stock Exchange ¡°the BVMT¡± during the period from 02/01/2015 to 29/05/2015. Results show the significance of the size of trades beyond that of the number of trades and traded capitals. We rank the stocks into three trade size categories based on their market capitalization in order to examine whether daily price volatility increases more with the number of shares traded in a particular size category than with other size categories. We found a negative relation between trading activity and price volatility for large and medium size firms and a positive relation for the smallest stocks.

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  • Mohamed Rafaa Chebbi & Sana Ayachi Jebnoun, 2016. "Impact of Trading Activity on Price Volatility: Case of Tunisian Stock Market," International Journal of Economics and Finance, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(12), pages 37-43, December.
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    number of transactions; traded capitals; share volume; price volatility; Tunisian stock market;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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