Thegeneralizedautoregressiveconditionalheteroskedasticity(GARCH)typemodelsareusedtoinvestigatethevolatilityofBangladeshstockmarket.Thefindingsofthestudydemonstratethattheindexvolatilitycharacteristicschangesovertime.Thearticleshowsthatthedataarepidedintothreesub-periods:precrisis,crisis,andpostcrisis.Accordingly,theresultsofthefindingsindicatechangesintheGARCH-typemodelsparameter,riskpremiumandpersistenceofvolatilityindifferentperiods.Asignificant'low-yieldassociatedwithhigh-risk'phenomenonisdetectedinthecrisisperiodandthe'leverageeffect'occursineachperiods.Theinvestorsareirrationalwhichisbasedonassumptionofriskandreturncharacteristicsofassets.Consequently,themarketisnotasmatureasdevelopedmarket.Itisfoundinthearticlethatthethresholdgeneralizedautoregressiveconditionalheteroskedasticity(TGARCH)modelismoreaccurateforthemodelaccuracy.Additionally,statisticerrormeasurementsindicatethatGARCHmodelismoreefficientthanothersandithasalsomoreforecastingability.
