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Modelling and Forecasting Volatility of Returns on the Ghana Stock Exchange Using Garch Models

Frimpong Joseph Magnus1 and Oteng-Abayie Eric Fosu2
  • 1 Department of Finance and Accounting, KNUST School of Business, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
  • 2 Department of Economics and Statistics, School of Business, Garden City University College, Ghana

Abstract

This paper models and forecasts volatility (conditional variance) on the Ghana Stock Exchange using a random walk (RW), GARCH(1,1), EGARCH(1,1), and TGARCH(1,1) models. The unique ‘three days a week’ Databank Stock Index (DSI) was used to study the dynamics of the Ghana stock market volatility over a 10-year period. The competing volatility models were estimated and their specification and forecast performance compared with each other, using AIC and LL information criteria and BDS nonlinearity diagnostic checks. The DSI exhibits the stylized characteristics such as volatility clustering, leptokurtosis and asymmetry effects associated with stock market returns on more advanced stock markets. The random walk hypothesis is rejected for the DSI. Overall, the GARCH (1,1) model outperformed the other models under the assumption that the innovations follow a normal distribution.

American Journal of Applied Sciences
Volume 3 No. 10, 2006, 2042-2048

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2006.2042.2048

Submitted On: 22 September 2006 Published On: 31 October 2006

How to Cite: Magnus, F. J. & Fosu, O. E. (2006). Modelling and Forecasting Volatility of Returns on the Ghana Stock Exchange Using Garch Models . American Journal of Applied Sciences, 3(10), 2042-2048. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2006.2042.2048

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Keywords

  • Ghana Stock Exchange
  • developing financial markets
  • volatility
  • GARCH model