*Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, MPNMJ Engineering College, Chennimalai, Erode, Tamilnadu, India
**Assistant Professor, School of Management Studies, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, Tamilnadu, India
Online published on 3 May, 2016.
This paper investigates the volatility of Nifty 50 index returns over the period of January 2015 to December 2015 through comparison of various conditional-Heteroskedasticity models. The empirical results shows that there is significant evidence for asymmetry in stock returns, which is captured by a EGARCH and TGARCH model, while there is strong persistence of shocks into volatility. The study finds out the GARCH (1, 1) model is the fitted model for capturing the symmetric volatility and EGARCH (1, 1) model is fitted model for measuring the asymmetric volatility.
Nifty Return, Volatility, GARCH, Leverage Effect, Volatility Clustering
