Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2007
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: İnci Esen
Danışman: SEZA DANIŞOĞLU
Özet:As the trading volume in TURKDEX, the first and only options and futures exchange in Turkey, increases, it becomes more important to have an understanding of the effect of stock index futures trading on the underlying spot market volatility. In this respect, this thesis analyzes the effect of ISE-National 30 index futures contract trading on the underlying stocks’ volatility. In this thesis, spot portfolio volatility is decomposed into two components and this decomposition is applied to a single-factor return-generating model to focus on the relationships among the volatility components rather than on the components in isolation. In order to measure the average volatility and the cross-sectional dispersion of the component securities and the portfolio volatility for each day in the sample period, a simple filtering procedure to recover a series of realized volatilities from a discrete time realization of a continuous time diffusion process is used. Results reveal that inception of futures trading has no significant effect on the volatility of the underlying ISE National 30 index stock market.