Theoretical Economics Letters
Vol.04 No.09(2014), Article ID:51623,11 pages
10.4236/tel.2014.49095

Analysis of the Effect of Index Futures on Stock Market with a New Fama-French 3-Factor Model

Xinyue Bei1, Yanjia Yang2, Liuling Li3, Bruce Mizrach4

1Accounting Department, Bussiness School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

2Finance Department, Economics School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

3The Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Economics School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

4Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

Email: xinyue_bei@126.com, yanjia_yang@yahoo.com, liliuling@nankai.edu.cn, mizrach@econ.rutgers.edu

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Received 27 September 2014; revised 30 October 2014; accepted 17 November 2014

ABSTRACT

In this paper, the effect of Index Futures on stock market is studied. A new model, which is based on the 3-factor model in Fama and French (1993), the EGARCH-type volatility in Nelson (1991) and non-normal distribution of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009) is used. Fama-French 25 portfolios for US stock market (1951-2007) are analyzed. Following Pericli and Koutmos (1997), we divide data into 2 sub-samples: sample 1 (pre-SP500 Index Futures) and sample 2 (post-SP500 Index Futures). Our three main findings are as follows. Fama-French 3 factors are still alive in both samples. During the period of post-SP500 Index Futures, the coefficients in this new model become slightly lower and the volatility of stock market is bigger.

Keywords:

Index Futures, Fama-French 3-Factor Model, SSAEPD (Standardized Standard Asymmetric Exponential Power Distribution), EGARCH

1. Introduction

Trading of stock Index Futures was first introduced by the Kansas City Board of Trade on February 24, 1982. Then, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began trading of SP500 Index Futures in April. After that, similar instruments were introduced in other countries, such as FTSE100 Index Futures in England, Composite Index Futures in Japan and All-Ordinaries Index Futures in Australia. The development of Index Futures has recieved many attensions.

One group of researchers show volatility of spot market is increased after the introduction of Index Futures. For example, Kang and Yoon (2007) found that the spot market became more volatile after the introduction of five Index Futures in Asia based on GARCH, GJR-GARCH and APGARCH model [1] . However, others show the opposite. Friedman, Harrison and Salmon (1983) suggested that spot prices tended to be less volatile after futures markets operate [2] . Gulen and Mayhew (2000) concluded stock Index Futures decreased the volatility of stock market in 25 countries (except US and Japan) [3] . Similar conclusion was drawn by Bologna and Cavallo (2002) [4] .

In addition to previous results, the 3rd groups of researchers show there is no statistically significance re- lationship between Index Futures and stock return. For example, Santoni (1987) analyzed SP500 index and found no significant change on stock index volatility [5] . Also, Xie and Huang (2014) use daily data of the China Securities Index (CSI) 300 between 2005 and 2012 and find that the launch of Index Futures does not decrease the volatility of the spot market [6] . Liu and Wang (2008) ran empirical test based on GARCH model and suggested that the introduction of Index Futures in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea did not increase the volatility in long term [7] . For other researches on Index Futures, one can refer to Table 1.

Following previous researches, this paper studies the influence of the Index Futures on stock market. SP500 Index Futures is analyzed. We use a new model based on the 3-factor model of Fama-French (1993), the EGARCH-type volatility of Nelson (1991) and non-Normal error of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009) [8] - [10] . This new model was first proposed by Yang (2013) [11] . The reason why we chose this new model was that it had better in-sample fit than that of Fama and French (1993).

In this paper, we will test following two hypotheses.

1) Are the 3 factors in Fama-French (1993) still alive if EGARCH-type volatility and non-Normal error are considered?

2) Can we find any differences before or after the introduction of SP500 Index Futures?

To answer these questions, Fama-French 25 portfolios are analyzed. Following Pericli and Koutmos (1997), we choose 1982 as the break point and divide the data into 2 sub-samples: pre-SP500 Index Futures as sample 1 (from September 1951 to March 1982) and post-SP500 Index Futures as sample 2 (from April 1982 to March 2007)1 [15] . Likelihood Ratio test (LR) is used for parameter restriction testings. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (KS) is used for model diagnostics.

Empirical results show Fama-French 3 factors are alive in both samples. After the introduction of SP500 Index Futures, the estimates for Fama-French three factors becomes lower and show less fluctuating. And we find the coefficients in EGARCH equaltion becomes bigger so we conclude that the volatility of the stock market becomes higher.

This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 is the model and methodology. Section 3 is the empirical results. Section 4 is the conclusion.

2. Model and Methodology

2.1. FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH Model

In this paper, we apply following new model (denoted as FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH) to study the effect of Index Futures on stock returns2.

(1)

Table 1. Researches about the index futures and Fama-French 3-Factor model.

Note: “-” means information is not available in the paper. D means daily. M means monthly. Min means minite.

(2)

Here, , and are the rate of return for stock portfolio, the risk-free rate and the return rate of the market at time, respectively. stands for small size (market capitalization) minus big size (market capitalization) and for high book-to-market ratio minus low book-to-market ratio. The conditional

standard deviation is, i.e., volatility. are the para-

meters to be estimated. The error term is distributed as the Standardized Standard Asymmetric Exponential Power Distribution (SSAEPD) proposed by Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009). The probability density function (PDF) of is

(3)

is distributed as the standard AEPD (SAEPD)3. And is the gamma function. is the skew- ness parameter. and are the left and right tail parameters, respectively. When, , SSAEPD will be reduced to Standard Normal, i.e., Normal (0,1).

2.2. Method of Maximum Likelihood Estimation

The maximum likelihood function for this new model is

(4)

where

(5)

(6)

3. Empirical Analysis

3.1. Data

In this paper, we study the effect of SP500 Index Futures on stock returns. The data used are the monthly return for the Fama-French 25 portfolios, which is downloaded from the French’s Data Library4. The sample period is from September 1951 to March 2007 with 666 observations. Following Pericli and Koutmos (1997), we select April 1982 as the breakpoint and set pre-SP500 Index Futures as sample 1 (from September 1951 to March 1982, the period before the introduction of SP500 Stock Index Futures) and the post-SP500 Index Futures as sample 2 (from April 1982 to March 2007, the period after the introduction of SP500 Stock Index Futures).

The descriptive statistics of these samples are listed in Table 2. The P-value of Jarque-Bera test for most portfolios is smaller than 5% significance level5. Hence, we conclude the asset returns in both samples do not follow Normal distribution.

3.2. Empirical Results

3.2.1. Estimations

For sample 1, the estimations are listed in Table 3. According to the results, all estimates of are around 1 (ranging from 0.84 to 1.12) and statistically significant under 5% significance level6. estimates decrease from small-size to big-size quintiles and all estimates, except portfolio at (5th, 5th) quintile, are statistically sig- nificant under 5% significance level. So we conclude that the small-size effect exsists in sample 1. Estimates of increase from low to high book-to-market quintiles and 23/25 estimates are statistically significant. 19/25 estimates of are not statistically significant. Similar results can be found for sample 2 (see Table 4). Hence, we conclude the Fama and French three factors are still alive in both samples.

For the parameters in SSAEPD, the estimates of range from 0.3 to 0.76 with only 3 estimates in sample 1 (4 estimates in sample 2) statistically different from 0.5. That means after considering the 3 factors and EGARCH-type volatility, most errors of the data show no obvious skewness. The -values range from 1.00 to 3.14 with 6 estimates in sample 1 (5 estimates in sample 2) statistically different from 2. The -values range from 0.79 to 2.35 with 7 estimates in sample 1 (7 in sample 2) statistically different from 2. So we conclude that most parameters in SSAEPD errors do follow some characteristics of Normal distribution, which may be caused by the EGARCH-type volatility.

In the EGARCH model, most estimates of a are close to zero and 14 estimates in sample 1 (5 estimates in sample 2) are statistically significant. 24/25 estimates of b in sample 1 (all in sample 2) are statistically sig- nificant. 18 estimates of c in sample 1 (22 estimates in sample 2) are not statistically significant, so we conclude that the good news and bad news do not have significant different impact on volatility. 11 estimates of d in sample 1 (22 estimates in sample 2) are statistically significant. Hence, we conclude that the asymmetric effect is not documented in the data.

3.2.2. Comparisions

To compare the factors before and after the introduction of SP500 index futures, we plot the estimates of, and in Figure 1. We discover that the coefficients in these two samples present similar patterns. During the period of post-SP500 Index Futures, most of the 25 portfolios have smaller, and. Also the estimates of and in sample 2 are all obviously less fluctuating compared with those in sample 1.Hence, we conclude that after the introduction of index futures the estimates for Fama-French three factors becomes smaller and show less fluctuating.

To compare the volatility of stock market, we plot the estimates of a, b, c, d in the EGARCH equation (see Figure 2). As mentioned above, most of the a and c values are small and close to zero so the values of condition

Table 2. Descriptive statistics.

Table 3. Estimates from sample 1 (pre-SP500 index futures).

Notes: *means the data reject the null hypothesis under 5% significance level. H00 = 0, H01 = 0, H02 = 0, H03 = 0, H0:α = 0.5, H0:p1 = 2, H0:p2 = 2, H0:a = 0, H0:b = 0, H0:c = 0, H0:b = 0.

Table 4. Estimates from sample 2 (post-SP500 index futures).

Notes: *means the data reject the null hypothesis under 5% significance level. H00 = 0, H01 = 0, H02 = 0, H03 = 0, H0:α = 0.5, H0:p1 = 2, H0:p2 = 2, H0:a = 0, H0:b = 0, H0:c = 0, H0:b = 0.

Figure 1. Comparisons of slope coefficient estimates in the mean equation during Pre- and Post-SP500 index futures (Y-axis is the value of βi (i = 1, 2, or 3). X-axis is the Fama-French 25 Portfolios. Solid line represents Pre-SP500 index futures and dotted line represents Post-SP500 index futures). (a) β1 values; (b) β2 values; (c) β3 values.

standard deviation depends mostly on the values of c, b and d. We discover that the estimates of both b and d are bigger in sample 2. So we conclude that the volatility becomes higher after the introduction of index futures.

3.3. Model Diagnostics (Residual Check)

In this section, we implement Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to check residuals for FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH model. Our results show the residuals of all the 25 portfolios from the model do follow SSAEPD, which means that the model is adequate for the Fama-French 25 portfolios.

The P-values of KS tests7 are displayed in Table 5. For example, the P-value of the portfolio with Smal Size

Figure 2. Comparisons of estimates in the GARCH equation during Pre- and Post- SP500 Index Futures (Y-axis is the value of a, b, c or d. X-axis is the Fama-French 25 portfolios. Solid line represents Pre-SP500 index futures and dotted line re- presents Post-SP500 index futures). (a) a values; (b) b values; (c) c values; (d) d values.

Table 5. P-values of KS test for residuals.

and Low Book-to-market in sample 1 is 0.77, greater than 5%. That means, under 5% significance level, the null hypothesis is not rejected and the residuals from the FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH model do follow the SSAEPD. Similar results are documented for all portfolios in two samples. Hence, we conclude the errors of the model do follow SSAEPD. i.e., the FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH model is adequate for most Fama-French 25 portfolios.

4. Conclusions and Future Extensions

In this paper, we study the effect of SP500 Index Futures on stock returns with a new model. This new model considers the EGARCH-type volatility in Nelson (1991), non-normal error of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde- Walsh (2009), and the 3-factor model of Fama and French (1993). Data of Fama-French 25 portfolios are used. We divide data into 2 samples: sample 1 (pre-SP500 Index Futures, from September 1951 to March 1982), sample 2 (post-SP500 Index Futures, from April 1982 to March 2007). Method of Maximum Likelihood Estimation is used to estimate this model and Likelihood Ratio test (LR) is used to test parameter restrictions.

Empirical results show Fama-French three factors are alive in both samples. After the introduction of SP500 Index Futures, the estimates for Fama-French three factors become lower and show less fluctuating and the volatility of the stock market becomes higher.

Future extensions will include but not limited to follows. First, different data can be used to study the influence of index futures. Second, different methods such as dummy variables could be used. Last but not least, subsample periods can be changed to check the robustness of our results.

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank participants in the seminars organized by Economics School at Nankai University, China and Economics School at Rutgers University, USA. We also want to thank participants in the conference organized by Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore (July 16-17, 2010), the Singapore Economic Review Conference (August 4-6, 2011), the International Conference on Applied Business & Economics at Manhattan, NY, USA (Oct. 2-4, 2013), the 8th International Conference on Asian Financial Markets & Economic Development at Nagasaki University (Dec. 7-8, 2013), Japan, the World Finance & Banking Symposium at Beijing, China (Dec. 16-17, 2013), the 2014 China Finance Review International Conference at Shanghai, China (July 26-27, 2014), and BIT’s 1st Annual Global Congress of Knowledge Economy at Qsingdao, China (Sept. 21-23, 2014). The authors are responsible for all errors.

Cite this paper

XinyueBei,YanjiaYang,LiulingLi,BruceMizrach, (2014) Analysis of the Effect of Index Futures on Stock Market with a New Fama-French 3-Factor Model. Theoretical Economics Letters,04,748-759. doi: 10.4236/tel.2014.49095

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NOTES

1We choose short sample periods because we think shorter period may reduce the noise such as the impact of other unrelated events on stock market. Also, we set the end of sample period before April 2007 because during the period of 2007 financial crisis, the volatility is too big, which is not related to oil crisis.

2Based on the 3-factor model in Fama and French (1993), the EGARCH-type volatility in Nelson (1991) and non-Normal error of SSAEPD in Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009), a new 3-factor model is proposed by Yang (2013). Yang (2013) denotes this new model as the FF- SSAEPD-EGARCH model, whose MatLab program is revised from that of Yin (2011). And in this paper, we first exam the simulation program of Yang (2013) and then apply this model and methodology to analyze data.

3By changing variable techniques, we obtain PDF of from . When is distributed as the standard AEPD, its probability density function is

4Thanks Yin (2011) who provides the well organized Excel files. Thanks Professor French for kindly providing the risk free rate by e-mail.

5Only the P-value of JB test of the (5,2) portfolio in sample 1 is more than 0.05.

6: . If the P-value of LR test is smaller than 5% significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected. Otherwise, it is not rejected.

7The null hypothesis of KS test is H0: FF-SSAEPD-EGARCH residuals are distributed as. If the P-value of KS test is smaller than 5% significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected. Otherwise, the null hypothesis is accepted.