Cross-Autocorrelation between a Shares and B Shares in the Chinese Stock Market

Posted: 20 Jul 1998

See all articles by Andy C.W. Chui

Andy C.W. Chui

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Chuck C.Y. Kwok

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business

Abstract

Listed companies in China upon meeting certain requirements can issue two types of shares: A shares and B shares. Local investors in China can only buy and sell A shares, while foreign investors can only trade B shares. We argue that foreign investors may receive news about China faster than domestic Chinese investors because of information barriers currently existing in China. Since foreigners participate in the B-share market, the price movements of B shares will thus reflect the common information that the foreigners have. Rational A-share investors can therefore condition their trading decisions on the previous price movements of B shares. As a result, returns on B shares lead the returns on A shares. Using daily prices of A and B shares, we demonstrate that returns of B shares are correlated with those of A shares and that this correlation depends on the information transmission mechanism at work. The pattern of the asymmetric cross-autocorrelation is robust to the inclusion of the lagged realized returns and the trading volumes.

JEL Classification: G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Chui, Andy Chun Wai and Kwok, Chuck C.Y., Cross-Autocorrelation between a Shares and B Shares in the Chinese Stock Market. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=89628

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