scholarly journals Productivity and Stock Returns: 1951 - 2002

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Parhizgari ◽  
Abe Aburachis
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Economic Time Series ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Productivity Data ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Definition Of

There is considerable concern whether the decline in stock market returns will eventually exert negative changes in the productivity data. This paper examines the long run, or the equilibrium, relationship between productivity and stock returns for the 1951-2002 period. It introduces the notion of equilibrium as represented by the co-movements of economic variables in the long run. This notion is viewed to be broader than the economic theory definition of equilibrium that usually means market clearance. Acknowledging that structural changes in economic time series are hard to detect, an alternative approach employing pair-wise and multifactor cointegration along with VAR modeling is employed. Within this framework, the relationships among productivity, stock prices (returns), investment, and corporate cash flows are pair-wise and jointly investigated. The results indicate that productivity and stock prices share a common trend; so do the stock prices and corporate net cash flows. The long-run common trend between investment and stock prices on the other hand is not so clear. The implications of these results for investors and policy-makers are discussed.  

scholarly journals Interdependence And Volatility Spillovers Under Market Reforms: The Case Of National Stock Exchange

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J.Queensly Jeyanthi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Volatility Spillovers ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Before And After

India, one of the emerging markets in Asia initiated the financial sector reforms by introducing international practices in its financial market.  In this paper an attempt has been made to examine whether and to what extent, Indian stock market is integrated with stock markets in the United States, Japan and U.K before and after the structural changes. It also examines whether such a relationship, if it exists, is affected by the structural changes that began in 1998  using daily data for the period April 1998 to December 2008. The main findings are: No evidence of long run relationships was found between the stock prices of India and its major trading partners before and after the structural changes. Second, in terms of short – run movements of international stock market returns, bidirectional Granger causality exist between the stock returns of India and those of US and UK and Japan after the structural changes but unidirectional relationship exists between India and the UK before the structural changes period.  The estimates from causality – type models suggest that volatility spillovers from UK and Japan were non –existent prior to structural changes and volatility spillovers from US and Japan have become quite pronounced after the structural changes. The results identify the US and Japan markets as the main sources of volatility spillovers for the NSE.

scholarly journals U.S. STOCK MARKET P/E RATIOS, STRUCTURAL BREAKS, AND LONG-TERM STOCK RETURNS

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung BAEK ◽  
Ingyu LEE
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Cumulative Sum Control ◽  
The Relationship

Our study investigates structural changes in the market P/E ratio and shows how structural changes affect long-term stock market returns. Using the cumulative sum control chart and the Bai-Perron algorithm, we identify multiple structural breakpoints in the market P/E ratio and find that those structural changes are significantly perceived over the long run. Unlike previous studies that do not consider structural changes, our study is the first one that shows how structural changes asymmetrically influence long-term stock returns depending on the high or low P/E period. This implies that structural changes in the market P/E ratio play an important role in explaining long-term stock returns. We propose that structural changes should be taken into account in some manner to establish the relationship between P/E ratios and long-term stock returns.

Growth and returns across countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Jesper Rangvid
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Wide Margin ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Us ◽  
Long Run Risk

This chapter examines the relation between long-run economic growth and returns across countries. Have countries that have experienced high GDP growth historically also experienced high stock returns? The chapter contains three main messages. First, there is no clear tendency that countries that have grown fast in the past are also countries that have delivered high stock returns in the past. Second, as in the US, stock prices have in many countries followed economic activity in the long run. Third, real interest rates relate to economic growth across countries in the long run.Another conclusion emerging from this chapter is that long-run stock returns exceed long-run rates of economic growth and long-run risk-free rates by a wide margin.

scholarly journals Pricing Chinese Convertible Bonds with Default Intensity by Monte Carlo Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Xin Luo ◽  
Jinlin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Default Risk ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Convertible Bonds ◽  
Martingale Measure ◽  
Default Intensity ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Two Parameters

This article proposes a new way to price Chinese convertible bonds by the Longstaff-Schwartz Least Squares Monte Carlo simulation. The default intensity and the volatility are the two important parameters, which are difficultly obtained in the emerging market, in pricing convertible bonds. By developing the Merton theory, we find a new effective method to get the theoretical value of the two parameters. In the pricing method, the default risk is described by the default intensity, and a default on a bond is triggered by the bottom Q(T) (default probability) percentile of the simulated stock prices at the maturity date. In the present simulation, a risk-free interest rate is used to discount the cash flows. So, the new pricing model is considered to tally with the general pricing rule under martingale measure. The empirical results of the CEB and the XIG convertible bonds by the proposed method are compared with those obtained by the credit spreads method. It is also found that the theoretical prices calculated by the method proposed in the article fit the market prices well, especially, in the long run tendency.

scholarly journals Irrelevance of inflation: The Dow stocks

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Samih Antoine Azar
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Price Index ◽  
Inflation Rate ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Price Indexes ◽  
One To One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Stock Indexes ◽  
Real Assets

The irrelevance of inflation is a proposition, inherited from corporate finance, which states that inflation is irrelevant for the valuation of nominal and real stock prices. In other terms, Net Present Values (NPVs) and stock returns are independent of the inflation rate.  The issue at stake is both theoretical and empirical, although the first came much before the latter. In the empirical realm, stock returns are found to be statistically negatively related to inflation. However, and theoretically, the classical school predicted that they should be related positively one-to-one. Moreover long run analysis, that came later, found that stock prices are positively related to price indexes. This stems from the fact that stocks are claims upon real assets, and, therefore, should be a hedge against inflation with the same one-to-one relation. This paper differs by subjecting all these hypotheses to the individual stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Index, and not to returns calculated from stock indexes, which is the usage. The empirical results in this paper support strongly the irrelevance of inflation.  This is true whatever the price index, whatever the econometric procedure, whatever the industry to which the stock belongs, and whatever the specification of the model.  Hence inflation is neither negatively nor positively related to stock returns, whether nominal or real.

Asymmetric impact of exchange rate changes on stock returns: evidence of two de facto regimes

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-173
Author(s):  
Walid M.A. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Currency Depreciation ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Exchange Rate Changes

Purpose This study focuses on Egypt’s recent experience with exchange rate policies, examining the existence of spillover effects of exchange rate variations on stock prices across two different de facto regimes and whether these effects, if any, are asymmetric. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis is carried out using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag modeling framework, which permits testing for the presence of short- and long-run asymmetries. Relevant local and global factors are also included in the analysis as control variables. The authors divide the entire sample into a soft peg period and a free float one. Findings Over the soft peg regime period, both positive and negative changes in EGP/USD exchange rates seem to have a significant impact on stock returns, whether in the short or long run. Short-term asymmetric effects vanish in the free float period, while long-term asymmetries continue to exist. By and large, the authors find that currency depreciation tends to exercise a stronger influence on stock returns than does currency appreciation. Practical implications The results offer important insights for investors, regulators and policymakers. With the domestic currency depreciation having a negative impact on stock prices, investors should contemplate implementing appropriate currency hedging strategies to abate depreciation risks and, hence, preserve their expected rate of return on the Egyptian pound-denominated investments. In the current post-flotation era, the government could pursue a flexible inflation targeting monetary policy framework, with a view to both lowering the soaring inflation toward an announced target rate and stabilizing economic growth. The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) could adopt indirect monetary policy instruments to secure tightened liquidity conditions. Besides, the CBE could raise policy rates to incentivize people to keep their money in local currency-denominated instruments, instead of dollarizing their savings, thereby relieving banks of foreign currency demand pressures. Nevertheless, while being beneficial to the country’s real economy on several aspects, such contractionary monetary measures may temporarily impinge on stock market performance. Accordingly, policymakers should consider precautionary measures that reduce the potential for price distortions and unnecessary volatility in the stock market. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the current study represents the first attempt to explore the potential impact of exchange rate changes under different regimes on Egypt’s stock market, thus contributing to the relevant research in this area.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Dynamics Between Macroeconomic Variables and the Stock Indexes of Emerging Markets, Using Non-linear Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Huthaifa Alqaralleh ◽  
Ahmad Al-Majali ◽  
Abeer Alsarayrh
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
High Volatility ◽  
Effective Exchange ◽  
Smooth Transition Regression ◽  
Stock Indexes

This study empirically considers five emerging markets from January 1995 to July 2019 to see whether nonlinearity helps to investigate responses to macroeconomic shocks in stock prices. With Vector Smooth Transition Regression, it uses real effective exchange rates, interbank interest rates, industrial production indices, and stock market returns. It confirms that nonlinearity in emerging markets may stem from their susceptibility to high volatility arising from political and geopolitical turnovers or global financial liquidity. It highlights significant differences in the asymmetric patterns. Some emerging markets respond asymmetrically to macro-variables, while others suggest that stock returns adjust from high or low towards the middle ground. Policy-makers seeking acceptable, accessible, sustainable and replicable actions that help stakeholders to invest may get help from our study to understand the properties of emerging markets central to each country’s economic activity. 

scholarly journals Reaction of stock market returns to COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown policy: evidence from Nigerian firms stock returns

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isiaka Akande Raifu ◽  
Terver Theophilus Kumeka ◽  
Alarudeen Aminu
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Panel Var ◽  
Impulse Response Functions ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Policy Shocks

AbstractGiven the effects COVID-19 pandemic on the financial sectors across the world, this study examined the reaction of stock returns of 201 firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown policy. We deployed both Pooled OLS and Panel VAR as estimation methods. Generally, the results from POLS show the stock market returns of the Nigerian firms reacted negatively more to the global COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths than the domestic COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths and lockdown policy. The results of the impulse response functions revealed that the effects of COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths and lockdown policy shocks on stock returns oscillate between negative and positive before the stock market returns converge to the equilibrium in the long run. The FEVD results showed that growth in the COVID-19 confirmed cases, deaths and lockdown policy shocks explained little variations in stock market returns. Given our finding, we advocate for the relaxation of policy of lockdown and the combine use of monetary and fiscal policies to mitigate the negative effect of COVID-19 pandemic on stock market returns in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Macroeconomic Variables and Stock Returns Revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feifei Wang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Vector Error Correction ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
The Real ◽  
Vector Error ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run

I revisit the relation between macroeconomic activities and stock prices by selecting the most important macroeconomic variables that are appropriate for analyzing their impact on stock returns. Using vector autogressive models (VAR), combined with co integration analysis and the vector error correction model (VECM) I estimate the explanatory power of each macroeconomic variable on the variations of the stock prices and distinguish the short-run from long-run movements among all key macroeconomic variables. I find that (1) in the short-run macroeconomic variables do not appear help explain changes in stock returns, (2) in the long-run the real interest rate and industrial production are the most important macroeconomic factors, and (3) in the long-term the real economic activity and stock returns Granger-cause each other.

scholarly journals The effect of ambiguity on the UK stock market: evidence from a new empirical approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-147
Author(s):  
Run Qing Tan ◽  
Viktor Manahov ◽  
Jacco Thijssen
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Var Model ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Stock Market Returns ◽  
Bid Ask Spread ◽  
The Uk

This study developed a new ambiguity measure using the bid-ask spread. The results suggest that the degree of ambiguity has an impact on the daily UK stock market returns, but ambiguity does not cause changes in the returns. This implies that UK stock prices or returns cannot be predicted using variation in the degree of ambiguity through linear models, such as the VAR model, which was used in the study. The two sets of results in the study show that the degree of ambiguity from the previous two days might affect stock market returns. The authors observe that an increase in the degree of ambiguity two days ago is associated with a positive premium required by the investors. On the other hand, the degree of ambiguity tends to be affected by its past five-day values. Thus, the degree of ambiguity seems to persist for five days until investors update their priors. The intuition behind the result is that the degree of ambiguity can affect the returns of the UK stock market and UK stock market returns can in turn have an impact on the degree of ambiguity. The authors also observe that the degree of ambiguity does not seem to predict stock market returns in the UK when one applies linear models. However, this does not mean that there is no non-linear relationship between the degree of ambiguity and stock market returns or stock returns.

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