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Is There a Risk in China's Gold Futures Price? — Empirical Study Based on GARCH-VAR Model
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Author: Yuang Zhang, Jianquan Nie
Abstract: This paper selects the daily frequency data of settlement price, closing price and consecutive contract price of gold futures from December 2016 to December 2019.The GARCH model is used to make an empirical analysis of three sets of daily price data series of gold futures, and the GARCH family model with the highest goodness of fit is used to predict the VaR value. Thus, the market risk of gold futures is estimated. The empirical analysis results show that the three price sequences are non-normal distribution, and ARCH effect exists in all of them. This feature can be removed by the best fitting GARCH family model corresponding to each of the three sets of data. The settlement and closing prices of active contracts fluctuate less. However, the closing price of continuous gold futures fluctuates more significantly than the other two groups of data due to its weighted nature. This paper argues that the relevant government departments should reduce the compulsory regulation measures on the financial derivatives market, so that enterprises and individual investors can more accurately calculate the market risks of derivatives through measurement methods. And commercial banks should focus on the transformation of the number and scale of the details of financial derivatives, so that both themselves and the majority of investors can more clearly predict the risk of gold futures.
Keywords: Gold Futures, Gold Futures Price Risk, GARCH Model, Var Method
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