The Regime Characteristics of Chinese Stock Market Industry Sectors

This article uses Markov regime Switching ARCH (SWARCH) model to research the volatility of Chinese stock market industry sectors, finding that all industry sectors were able to be significantly divided into two regimes, the high volatility regime and the low volatility regime. For different regime transfer, we can classify all sectors into three categories. Further the article analyzes the regime characteristics of industry sectors. The results show that the correlation coefficient in high volatility regime is higher than that in low volatility regime.