The impact of Baidu Index sentiment on the volatility of China's stock markets

Jianchun Fang, Giray Gozgor, Chi Keung Marco Lau, Zhou Lu

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    Abstract

    This paper examines the relationship between investor sentiment and the volatility of China's stock markets. We use the data from Baidu, China's leading search engine, for information on investor sentiment. In two different Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models, the baseline model and the Baidu-Index extended model, we forecast the return volatility of China's stock markets. We find that the Baidu-Index extended model performs better than the baseline model. This paper shows that the search volume of relevant key words from Baidu Index improves volatility forecasting of China's stock markets.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number101099
    JournalFinance Research Letters
    Volume32
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 29 Jan 2019

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    Funding Information:
    The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments and suggestions. The authors acknowledge the financial supports from the Philosophy & Social Science Fund of Tianjin City , China ( TJLJ17-005 ).

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