Research Article

Investor Sentiment and the Basis of CSI 300 Stock Index Futures: An Empirical Study Based on QVAR Model and Quantile Regression

Table 2

Regression results of the quantile vector autoregressive models.

Panel A: Quantile vector autoregressive models

First stage (Stable market)Second stage (Turbulent market)

Endogenous variable25%50%75%25%50%75%

0.62730.78410.74820.74320.73290.7380

-0.0557-0.0622-0.0804-0.2804-0.2056-0.3802

-0.0566-0.0319-0.00680.0296-0.0001-0.0048

0.73060.71300.82421.15270.67690.6117

Panel B: Quantile vector autoregressive models

F-valueP value

Investor sentiment is not the Granger cause of the basis5.45460.000

Basis is not the Granger cause of the investor sentiment1.70760.1368

Table 2 reports the result of the quantile vector autoregressive estimation (QVAR). , , and stand for statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% level, respectively.