scholarly journals Safe-Haven Assets, Financial Crises, and Macroeconomic Variables: Evidence from the Last Two Decades (2000–2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Marco Tronzano
Keyword(s):  
Risk Premium ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Asset Returns ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Equity Risk ◽  
Global Investors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Portfolio Shifts

This paper focuses on three “safe haven” assets (gold, oil, and the Swiss Franc) and examines the impact of recent financial crises and some macroeconomic variables on their return co-movements during the last two decades. All financial crises produced significant increases in conditional correlations between these asset returns, thus revealing consistent portfolio shifts from more traditional towards safer financial instruments during turbulent periods. The world equity risk premium stands out as the most relevant macroeconomic variable affecting return co-movements, while economic policy uncertainty indicators also exerted significant effects. Overall, this evidence points out that gold, oil, and the Swiss currency played an important role in global investors’ portfolio allocation choices, and that these assets preserved their essential “safe haven” properties during the period examined.

scholarly journals What Explains The Equity Risk Premium In ASEAN Countries?

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1707
Author(s):  
Soo-Hyun Kim ◽  
Katherine Villalobos
Keyword(s):  
Error Correction ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Correction Term ◽  
Equity Risk Premium ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Asean Member ◽  
Equity Risk ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to mainly investigate the impact of the selected macroeconomic variables such as inflation (INF), gross domestic product (GDP), foreign direct investment (FDI) and stocks traded turn-over ratio (STTR) on equity risk premium (ERP) of six major ASEAN member countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.  Applied methods are panel pooled regression and panel vector error correction model (VECM) through the latest version of Eviews9. In the former approach, among the selected macroeconomic variables, both INF and STTR significantly and positively affect the ERP. Both periods and years show to have fixed effects as dummy variables. One cointegration has been determined among macroeconomic variables and ERP suggesting a long term equilibrium association which led to employ Panel VECM. INF denotes a significant long-run relationship with ERP and the error correction term results suggest deviation of INF is a relevant factor but not the errors of liquidity as the STTR didn't show any significant impact in the model. Granger Casuality test suggests both INF and ERP do granger causes each other in the short run. Thus, inflation is a robust factor of ERP in two different methods while the STTR is not a robust as it shows different results. 

The Impact of Economic Sentiment, Consumer, Producer and Investor's Confidence Indices on Stock Returns of the Listed Companies in FTSE-20 in Greece

2018 ◽  
pp. 162-209
Author(s):  
Constantine Cantzos ◽  
Petros Kalantonis ◽  
Aristidis Papagrigoriou ◽  
Stefanos Theotokas
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Production Index ◽  
Behavioral Indicators ◽  
Portfolio Returns ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between stock returns of companies listed in the FTSE-20 on the Athens Exchange and behavioral indicators. The research is based on the behavioral APT model, which examines stock returns' risk factors through the involvement of macroeconomic variables and behavioral indicators. The data is the closing price of 17 shares listed in the FTSE-20 index, a number of macroeconomic variables, and a series of behavioral indicators for the period of January 2001-December 2014. Regressions were conducted with dependent variable stock returns of a portfolio invested equally in these 17 stocks. In addition, the research tests the existence of long-run and short-run equilibrium and causality. The change in the industrial production index along with the risk premium have a positive and significant impact on the portfolio returns. Johansen's test showed that there is a long-run equilibrium between stock returns, macroeconomic variables, and behavioral indicators. The VECM and VAR models showed that there is not long and short-run causality, not even Granger causality. No similar research has been conducted in Greece, thus it fills a literature gap.

DOES CHANGE IN ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAINTY AFFECT REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS (REITs)?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 1950016
Author(s):  
RANJEETA SADHWANI ◽  
SURESH KUMAR OAD RAJPUT ◽  
ASAD ALI-RIND ◽  
MUHAMMAD TAHIR SULEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Real Estate Investment Trusts ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Investment Trusts ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to find the impact of change in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the returns and volatilities of 11 CRSP Ziman value-weighted US real estate investment trusts (REITs) during 1985–2016. The results indicate that the change in EPU has a positive relationship with volatility and a negative one with the REITs returns. Among EPU components, news-based component has the major impact than the others. Change in economic policy uncertainty has a significant impact on the returns of all the indices except hybrid, healthcare and unclassified REITs after controlling for macroeconomic variables. Whereas, the volatility is mainly explained by its own past values and macroeconomic variables.

scholarly journals The Impact of Policy Uncertainty on Macro-Economy of Developed and Developing Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seabelo T. Nyawo ◽  
Roscoe Bertrum Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Structural Vars ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates the effects of a US economic policy uncertainty shock on Indian macroeconomic variables with a number of Structural VARs. This study models the economic policy uncertainty index as constructed by Baker et al. (2013). The study also uses a set of macroeconomic variables for India such as inflation, industrial production and nominal interest rate. The objective of the study is to identify the potential impacts of economic policy uncertainty shocks from the US economy to the Indian economy. According to the SVARs, a one standard deviation shock to the US economic policy uncertainty leads to a statistically significant decline in the Indian industrial production of -0.294% and in the Indian inflation of -0.032%. India shows to be resistant to US policy uncertainty. Furthermore, the study finds that the contribution of the US economic policy uncertainty on the Indian macroeconomic variables is shown to be significantly larger than the one exerted by the Indian uncertainty shock. 

scholarly journals Equity Risk Premium in ASEAN: Empirical Analysis on Its Puzzle and Impact of 2008 Financial Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Villalobos
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Calibration Method ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Equity Risk Premium ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Market Development ◽  
Equity Risk ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to mainly investigate equity risk premium of the six major members of ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam which have been chosen based on their stock market development and data availability. It has focused on the two main issues of the equity risk premium such as the intriguing issue on the existence of equity premium puzzle and the analysis on the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the trend of the equity risk premium and their potential contribution on the risk aversion's attitude of the ASEAN investors. Three methods are utilized to test this phenomenon (1) basic model consumption of Mehra and Prescott (1985) and simplified model by Ni (2006); (2) calibration (Campbell, 2003) and (3) GMM estimation (Hansen, 1982). The calibration method results suggest that the puzzle exists in Indonesia.It has determined that the puzzle seems lying on the negative covariance between the consumption growth rate and the average real stock return. After applying GMM as method of the three sub-sample analyses for before, after and excluding 2008, it shows that financial crisis didn't affect much the value of risk aversion, but it cannot deny the fact that it has profound effect on the behavior of the equity risk premium. It can also be inferred that after crisis, ASEAN investors are likely tend to become more decreasing relative risk averse and prefer to have happiness tomorrow than today.

Gold's Price and Advanced Stock Markets

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Stoupos ◽  
Apostolos Kiohos
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Intraday Data ◽  
Global Investors

Traditionally, the gold has been approved as a safe-haven investment after the collapse of Breton Woods. The global investors especially prefer to rebalance their portfolios by purchasing gold or its derivatives during financial crises. This research explores realized dynamic linkages between gold and the advanced stock market indices, after the end of the 2008 economic recession. This chapter used the fractionally co-integrated ECM by utilizing intraday data from 2013 and thereafter. The empirical outcomes support that there is a negative-realized dynamics between the advanced stock markets and the gold's price in the short and in the long run. Specifically, the short-term dynamics of gold's price seems to be higher on the French and Japanese stock market indices. Lastly, the long-term dynamics of gold's price seems to be higher on the Dow Jones and the FTSE100.

scholarly journals How Much Do Investors Care About Macroeconomic Risk? Evidence from Scheduled Economic Announcements

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Savor ◽  
Mungo Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Asset Returns ◽  
Precautionary Saving ◽  
Macroeconomic News ◽  
Macroeconomic Risk ◽  
Equity Risk ◽  
Sharpe Ratios ◽  
Risk Free Rate ◽  
Free Rate

AbstractStock market average returns and Sharpe ratios are significantly higher on days when important macroeconomic news about inflation, unemployment, or interest rates is scheduled for announcement. The average announcement-day excess return from 1958 to 2009 is 11.4 basis points (bp) versus 1.1 bp for all the other days, suggesting that over 60% of the cumulative annual equity risk premium is earned on announcement days. The Sharpe ratio is 10 times higher. In contrast, the risk-free rate is detectably lower on announcement days, consistent with a precautionary saving motive. Our results demonstrate a trade-off between macroeconomic risk and asset returns, and provide an estimate of the premium investors demand to bear this risk.

scholarly journals The Impact of Policy Uncertainty on Macro-Economy of Developed and Developing Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1(J)) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Seabelo T. Nyawo ◽  
Roscoe Bertrum Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Structural Vars ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates the effects of a US economic policy uncertainty shock on Indian macroeconomic variables with a number of Structural VARs. This study models the economic policy uncertainty index as constructed by Baker et al. (2013). The study also uses a set of macroeconomic variables for India such as inflation, industrial production and nominal interest rate. The objective of the study is to identify the potential impacts of economic policy uncertainty shocks from the US economy to the Indian economy. According to the SVARs, a one standard deviation shock to the US economic policy uncertainty leads to a statistically significant decline in the Indian industrial production of -0.294% and in the Indian inflation of -0.032%. India shows to be resistant to US policy uncertainty. Furthermore, the study finds that the contribution of the US economic policy uncertainty on the Indian macroeconomic variables is shown to be significantly larger than the one exerted by the Indian uncertainty shock. 

scholarly journals Equity risk premium: A cross country analysis on return behaviour

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Santhosh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Equity Risk Premium ◽  
Equity Risk ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
The Impact

The equity risk premium has been of paramount importance in the field of finance and is still a widely utilised central element for every risk return model in corporate finance, asset pricing and other fields of economic literature. This research captures the differences in the ex-post behaviour of equity risk premium between developed and emerging markets .Further, an investigation has been made into the impact of global integration on the ERP across G7 countries and 7 emerging countries. .The analysis has shown a decline in the ERP of developed nations and an upward trend in emerging markets over the chosen sub-sample period. We found out that there exists low correlation in ERP of emerging markets in comparison with developed markets

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