6. Conclusions
In this paper, multifractal analysis methods were mainly applied to study the multifractal properties of China’s stock, bond and fund markets. Different from some published papers, such as references [1–3,6–9], this paper studied the correlations among three financial markets instead of two, and focused mainly on their multifractal auto-correlations and cross-correlations, and emphasized more on different dynamic behaviors of the three markets at different time scales. Our findings can be summarized as follows. Firstly, the descriptive statistics showed that the return series of the three markets disobey the Gaussian distribution. That is, the distributions of the three return series are non-normal due to their sharp peaks and fat-tailed statistical features. Moreover, the Ljung–Box and cross-correlation tests indicate that there exist nonlinear auto-correlated structures and longrange cross-correlations in the three series. Then, the multifractal characteristics of three return series were analyzed by using the MF-DFA and multifractal spectrum analysis methods. The results showed that the auto-correlations of the three return series have multifractality. In addition, the sources of multifractality were explored. We found that both the long-range correlations and fat-tailed distributions are common causes for the multifractality, and fat-tailed distributions have major effect on the multifractality.