Table 2

Summary statistics

IndexMeanStd. DevMinMaxSkewnessKurtosisS–W test
SSE0.02710.0135−0.08490.0576−0.6139.8760.9143***
SZSE0.02040.0113−0.09330.0671−0.49010.2600.9000***
MSCI AC Asia Pacific ESG leaders0.03730.0127−0.06280.0576−0.5726.1380.9810***
MSCI China ESG leaders0.03080.0088−0.05270.0523−0.1789.4290.9285***
SSE SUS0.02600.0159−0.08100.0684−0.2218.0490.9590***
SSE ENV0.01580.0186−0.09150.0827−0.1018.8620.9431***
SSE CG0.01770.0153−0.08790.0677−1.9009.2420.9337***
BTC0.40170.0541−0.35170.5992−0.40111.8740.8083***
WTI−0.04110.0211−0.34040.1741−0.19112.2090.7803***
GOLD0.01600.0260−0.13480.1392−0.3909.0610.9383***

Note(s): This table presents descriptive statistics for the SSE, SZSE, MSCI AC Asia Pacific ESG leaders, MSCI China ESG leaders, SSE SUS, SSE ENV, SSE CG, BTC, WTI and GOLD. This table presents the annualized mean, annualized median, maximum of the daily returns, minimum of the daily returns, annualized standard deviation (SD), skewness, kurtosis and the Shapiro–Wilk test for the daily return series during the period 2017–2020. Significance codes: *** express significance at the 0.99 level, ** at 0.95, * at 0.90

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