IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/assmgt/v17y2016i3d10.1057_jam.2016.2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Return and volatility of emerging markets leveraged ETFs

Author

Listed:
  • Gerasimos Rompotis

    (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Abstract

This article focuses on the performance and volatility of leveraged Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs) investing in stock indices from emerging markets. A sample of 12 leveraged and 11 inverse leveraged ETFs covering country or regional emerging market indices is employed to investigate their short-term and long-term performance vis-à-vis their targeted returns, their volatility, the persistence in their volatility, spillover effects on returns and the transmission of volatility between the ETFs and underlying benchmarks. The results show that the average leveraged ETFs can deliver its return target over a weekly period at a maximum. The average inverse ETF can do so only over a 2-day period. As far as risk is concerned, the results show that the volatility of leveraged ETFs is quite aligned to the volatility of targets while it is significantly persistent through time. Moreover, it is found that the leverage effect suggested by Black, which states that the volatility of a stock increases when equity prices fall, applies to leveraged ETFs but the opposite effect applies to inverse leveraged ETFs. Finally, significant bilateral spillover effects on return and volatility between ETFs and benchmarks are revealed.

Suggested Citation

  • Gerasimos Rompotis, 2016. "Return and volatility of emerging markets leveraged ETFs," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 17(3), pages 165-194, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:assmgt:v:17:y:2016:i:3:d:10.1057_jam.2016.2
    DOI: 10.1057/jam.2016.2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/jam.2016.2
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1057/jam.2016.2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Duan, Jin-Chuan, 1997. "Augmented GARCH (p,q) process and its diffusion limit," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 79(1), pages 97-127, July.
    2. Nelson, Daniel B, 1991. "Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Asset Returns: A New Approach," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 59(2), pages 347-370, March.
    3. Kumiega, Andrew & Neururer, Thaddeus & Van Vliet, Ben, 2011. "Independent component analysis for realized volatility: Analysis of the stock market crash of 2008," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 292-302, June.
    4. Charupat, Narat & Miu, Peter, 2011. "The pricing and performance of leveraged exchange-traded funds," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 35(4), pages 966-977, April.
    5. Prakash L. Dheeriya & Fahimeh Rezayat & Burhan F. Yavas, 2014. "Relations between Volatility and Returns of Exchange Traded Funds of Emerging Markets and of USA," Review of Economics & Finance, Better Advances Press, Canada, vol. 4, pages 44-46, Feburary.
    6. Jo-Hui Chen, 2011. "The spillover and leverage effects of ethical exchange traded fund," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(10), pages 983-987.
    7. Black, Fischer, 1972. "Capital Market Equilibrium with Restricted Borrowing," The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 45(3), pages 444-455, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Marcel Bräutigam & Marie Kratz, 2019. "Bivariate FCLT for the Sample Quantile and Measures of Dispersion for Augmented GARCH(p, q) processes," Working Papers hal-02176276, HAL.
    2. Stentoft, Lars, 2005. "Pricing American options when the underlying asset follows GARCH processes," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 576-611, September.
    3. Jamal Bouoiyour & Refk Selmi, 2015. "Exchange volatility and export performance in Egypt: New insights from wavelet decomposition and optimal GARCH model," The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 201-227, March.
    4. Buccheri, Giuseppe & Corsi, Fulvio & Flandoli, Franco & Livieri, Giulia, 2021. "The continuous-time limit of score-driven volatility models," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 221(2), pages 655-675.
    5. Bao, Te & Diks, Cees & Li, Hao, 2018. "A generalized CAPM model with asymmetric power distributed errors with an application to portfolio construction," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 68(C), pages 611-621.
    6. Peter Christoffersen & Redouane Elkamhi & Bruno Feunou & Kris Jacobs, 2010. "Option Valuation with Conditional Heteroskedasticity and Nonnormality," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 23(5), pages 2139-2183.
    7. Cathy W. S. Chen & Richard H. Gerlach & Ann M. H. Lin, 2011. "Multi-regime nonlinear capital asset pricing models," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(9), pages 1421-1438, April.
    8. Eunju Hwang, 2021. "Limit Theory for Stationary Autoregression with Heavy-Tailed Augmented GARCH Innovations," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-10, April.
    9. Lidija Dedi & Burhan F. Yavas, 2016. "Return and volatility spillovers in equity markets: An investigation using various GARCH methodologies," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 1266788-126, December.
    10. F. Fornari & A. Mele, 1998. "ARCH Models and Option Pricing : The Continuous Time Connection," THEMA Working Papers 98-30, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
    11. Chiang, Min-Hsien & Huang, Hsin-Yi, 2011. "Stock market momentum, business conditions, and GARCH option pricing models," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(3), pages 488-505, June.
    12. Mojtaba Sedighi & Majid Mohammadi & Saeed Farahani Fard & Mehdi Sedighi, 2019. "The Nexus between Stock Returns of Oil Companies and Oil Price Fluctuations after Heavy Oil Upgrading: Toward Theoretical Progress," Economies, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-17, July.
    13. De Santis, Giorgio & imrohoroglu, Selahattin, 1997. "Stock returns and volatility in emerging financial markets," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 561-579, August.
    14. Berkes, István & Hörmann, Siegfried & Schauer, Johannes, 2009. "Asymptotic results for the empirical process of stationary sequences," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 119(4), pages 1298-1324, April.
    15. Duan, Jin-Chuan & Simonato, Jean-Guy, 2001. "American option pricing under GARCH by a Markov chain approximation," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 25(11), pages 1689-1718, November.
    16. Bjorn Hansson & Peter Hordahl, 1998. "Testing the conditional CAPM using multivariate GARCH-M," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(4), pages 377-388.
    17. Turan Bali & Panayiotis Theodossiou, 2007. "A conditional-SGT-VaR approach with alternative GARCH models," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 241-267, April.
    18. Teräsvirta, Timo, 2006. "An introduction to univariate GARCH models," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 646, Stockholm School of Economics.
    19. Lin, Bing-Huei & Yeh, Shih-Kuo, 2000. "On the distribution and conditional heteroscedasticity in Taiwan stock prices," Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Elsevier, vol. 10(3-4), pages 367-395, December.
    20. Jukka Ilomäki & Hannu Laurila & Michael McAleer, 2018. "Asymmetric Risk Impacts of Chinese Tourists to Taiwan," Documentos de Trabajo del ICAE 2018-05, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:assmgt:v:17:y:2016:i:3:d:10.1057_jam.2016.2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.