Table 1.

Descriptive statistic and diagnostic test

MeanMedianMaximumMinimumSDSkewnessKurtosisObs.
Panel A: Descriptive statistic
Sensex0.06110.080315.9899−33.08351.5920−1.394939.2816342
Nifty 500.06520.08110.1633−0.13050.01500.040511.9506222
Panel B: Diagnostic test
 Jarque–BeraJB probabilityADFKPSSARCH LMCorrelation test:Q (20)Q2 (20)
Sensex17379.440.00−14.77*0.144477.90*50.52*94.89*3699.9
Nifty 5020770.130.00−14.92*0.121493.12*89.375*148.7*3001.7

Notes: This table represents summary statistics of the daily returns of seven Asian stock indices (Dhaka stock exchange, Hong Kong stock exchange, Nepal stock exchange, Karachi stock exchange, Colombo stock exchange, Bombay stock exchange and National stock exchange). Panel B comprises a goodness of fitness test using JB test, tests for stationarity of augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) and Kwiatkowski Phillips Schmidt Shin (KPSS). A residual heteroscedasticity test with the ARCH LM test, a serial correlation test with the Breusch-Godfrey serial LM test, autocorrelation test of Ljung-Box Q-square statistics up to lag 20. *, ** and ***represent the value that is significant at 1, 5 and 10% levels, respectively

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