INFLUENCE OF STOCK MARKET LIQUIDITY ON THE GROWTH OF CORPORATE BOND MARKET IN KENYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Dr. David W. Wanyama

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze how stock market liquidity influence the growth of corporate bond market in Kenya.Methodology: The study used descriptive and causal research designs.  Secondary data was used. The sample of the study consisted of daily and monthly time series covering six years beginning January 2009 to December 2014. Unit root tests using Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron tests were done. The study used Eviews econometric software to facilitate empirical analysis of data.Results: Regression of coefficients results shows that stock market liquidity and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=8.291, p=0.0008).Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This study recommends study recommends for Policy makers to come up with measures to enhance the liquidity of the stock market which will in turn encourage investment in corporate bonds.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Dr. David W. Wanyama

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze how stock market concentration influences the growth of corporate bond market in Kenya.Methodology: The study used descriptive and causal research designs.  Secondary data was used. The sample of the study consisted of daily and monthly time series covering six years beginning January 2009 to December 2014. Unit root tests using Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron tests were done. The study used Eviews econometric software to facilitate empirical analysis of data.Results: Regression of coefficients results shows that stock market concentration and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=0.014, p=0.017).Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommends that concerted efforts should be made to improve market concentration in the corporate bonds market so that it can operate optimally. The existing concentration affected the stock and corporate bond markets positively. However, policy makers should be careful not to allow a higher stock market concentration as this will adversely affect the financial markets (El-Wassal, 2013).


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Dr. David W. Wanyama

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze how stock market volatility influences the growth of corporate bond market in Kenya.Methodology: The study used descriptive and causal research designs.  Secondary data was used. The sample of the study consisted of daily and monthly time series covering six years beginning January 2009 to December 2014. Unit root tests using Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron tests were done. The study used Eviews econometric software to facilitate empirical analysis of data.Results: Regression of coefficients results shows that stock market volatility and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=0.000023, p=0.0001).Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommended that Policy makers should be aware of and monitor the level of stock market volatility that is appropriate for promoting the growth of the corporate bond markets and indeed other financial markets.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (SI) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Sonal Thukral ◽  
Rahul Sikka

The paper attempts to explore the relationship between the stock market and the corporate bond market, with a focus on the inter-dependency of liquidity between the two markets. The study employs a panel dataset to assess the impact of stock market liquidity on the corporate bond market liquidity for top five Asian economies (ranked by GDP) for the period 2008-2017. In contrast to limited number of earlier studies that reported a spillover effect of liquidity among the markets for stock and government bonds, the results of the present study convey that an increase in stock market liquidity tends to eat up the liquidity of the corporate bonds, even after controlling for government bond yield and inflation rate changes. The findings indicate a crowding out effect instead of a spillover effect, as indicated by related studies. The ‘flight-to-quality’ argument provides one possible explanation of liquidity moving away from one market to the other. This has an implication that if regulators’ policies are focused in developing only one type of market, it may crowd out the liquidity and the development of the other market. The study suggests the government to focus more on corporate bond market, which is yet to flourish in the Asian markets as compared to its stock market counterparts. The paper is one of the few attempts that focus on the corporate bond market and its liquidity and aims to ignite a debate on the possible linkages between liquidity of corporate bond market and the stock market.


IIUC Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Abu Hanifa Md Noman Bin Alam ◽  
Serajul Islam ◽  
Nazneen Jahan Chy

Bond market plays a vital role in economic development of a country. Bond market provides long term finance to issuers by creating alternative source of finance through stock market, besides providing stable source of income to investors against volatile stock market. However, Bangladesh corporate Bond market is at very initial stage. Hence, it is needed to make an analysis of investors’ attitude towards corporate bonds in Bangladesh for determining investors finding on the issue. The study is limited to performance evaluation of three corporate bonds in corporate bond market in Bangladesh and investigate investors attitude towards it. We have collected secondary information from DSE web site and processed through SPSS to make performance analysis and collected primary data from investors of some brokerage houses in Chittagong metro through questionnaire survey for analyzing investors’ attitude towards corporate bond market. The study has found that price stability of ACI zero coupon bond is more than IBBL Perpetual Mudaraba Bond and BRAC subordinated convertible bond and it is also found that only 5% of respondents prefers to invest in corporate bonds due to lack of supply of corporate bond, lack of investors’ awareness, inadequate market regulations etc.IIUC Studies Vol.10 & 11 December 2014: 127-144


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dr. David W. Wanyama

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze how stock market size influences the growth of corporate bond market in Kenya.Methodology: The study used descriptive and causal research designs.  Secondary data was used. The sample of the study consisted of daily and monthly time series covering six years beginning January 2009 to December 2014. Unit root tests using Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron tests were done. The study used Eviews econometric software to facilitate empirical analysis of data.Results: Regression of coefficients results shows that Stock market size and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=0.029, p=0.002). The results revealed that stock market capitalization does not granger cause corporate bond market in Kenya.Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This study recommends for Policy makers in Kenya to find ways and means of increasing the size of the stock market to reap the aforementioned benefits. A large size of the stock market will cause the benefits to flow to the corporate bond market too.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Dr. David W. Wanyama

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze how stock market development influences the growth of corporate bond market in Kenya.Methodology: The study used descriptive and causal research designs.  Secondary data was used. The sample of the study consisted of daily and monthly time series covering six years beginning January 2009 to December 2014. Unit root tests using Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron tests were done. The study used Eviews econometric software to facilitate empirical analysis of data.Results: Regression of coefficients results shows that Stock market size and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=0.029, p=0.002), stock market liquidity and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=8.291, p=0.0008), Stock Market Concentration and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=0.014, p=0.017). Regression of coefficients results shows that Stock Market Volatility and corporate bonds are positively and significant related (r=0.000023, p=0.0001).Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This study recommends study recommends for Policy makers to come up with measures to enhance the liquidity of the stock market which will in turn encourage investment in corporate bonds. The study recommends that concerted efforts should be made to improve market concentration in the corporate bonds market so that it can operate optimally. Policy makers should be aware of and monitor the level of stock market volatility that is appropriate for promoting the growth of the corporate bond markets and indeed other financial markets. Policy makers in Kenya should find ways and means of increasing the size of the stock market to reap the aforementioned benefits.


FEDS Notes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2918) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Chikis ◽  
◽  
Jonathan Goldberg ◽  

Beginning in late February 2020, market liquidity for corporate bonds dried up and corporate bond credit spreads soared amid broad financial market dislocations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes of this liquidity dry-up and the spike in corporate bond spreads remain subjects of debate.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Tamara Teplova ◽  
Darya Budanova

In this paper, the question of price anomaly’s existence in the ruble bond market is considered. The construction of the profitable investment (trade) strategy on the relatively best and relatively worst corporate bonds that are ranged by the historical return allows to reveal the anomaly. The testing is conducted at the total sample (303 bonds of Russian issuers) and the sub-sample (25 liquid bonds of Russian issuers). The results that include the selection of the trade strategy’s design (the analysis of more than 6 thousand combinations of historical return periods investment periods and the percentiles of the best and worst portfolios) allow to detect the reversal effect (when the profitable strategy includes investing in to former losers who have demonstrated the lowest historical return). The investments in former winners also may be profitable, but the parameters of the strategy design become crucial to reach this effect. The result above justifies the fact that Russian corporate bond market is overestimated, the bond demand is higher that the bond supply that leads to the anomaly in the dynamics of the return, when the investment in losers makes it possible to get profit.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Maria Iorgachova ◽  
Olena Kovalova ◽  
Ivan Plets

In the context of the gap between the financial and real sectors of the Ukrainian economy, there is a problem of the absence of financial instruments able to solve the issue of financing the development of the national economic system on a long-term basis. At the current stage of the stock market development, financial engineering has a significant potential for the effective application since it can become an instrument that meets the current needs of the market. The purpose of this article is to study the current dynamics of development and features of the corporate bond market in Ukraine, as well as to develop the parameters of the new profit-bonds with the help of financial engineering, which takes into account investors’ inquiries in the formation of an investment portfolio and supposed to be a profitable form of attracting financial resources for issuers. Methodology. Materials of periodicals, analytical market reviews, resources of the Internet are the informational and methodological basis of the investigation. The research is based on general scientific and special methods, such as: comparison, systematic approach factor analysis, economic and mathematical methods. A comparative analysis of the parameters of financial instruments has been carried out that allowed determining the investors’ inquiries, investment trends and features of the choice of financial instruments by investors and accordingly to offer competitive debt securities according to the parameters of payment, maturity, security, repayment order, issue of currency. The results of the study indicate that there is the necessity of reformation of the stock market in terms of expanding the range of financial instruments based on financial engineering. The introduction of profit-bonds will allow offering participants of the Ukrainian market competitive conditions for the issue of securities, which are based on the modelled parameters of bonds. A schematic algorithm for the implementation of profit bonds is developed; it joins a complex of interrelated stages of implementation, which are sensitive to internal and external factors of influence. Practical implications. Directions for improving financial instruments on the basis of financial engineering can be applied by the participants of the stock market that will increase the general level of economic activity in the national economy and permit to accumulate financial resources on the profitable terms. Value/originality. The article reveals the development of the domestic market for corporate bonds as an important segment of the stock market through the application of financial engineering and the use of new financial products created to address the issue of attracting the necessary financial resources to the real sector. The introduction of financial engineering as a tool for the development of Ukrainian corporate bond market and its schematic algorithm of the implementation will allow an investor to react in time to the market changes. The creation of the State Fund for the Guaranteeing of Income of the Investors Market Act, which is formed at the state level by analogy with the existing Guarantee Fund for Individual Deposits, will allow the fulfilment of the security parameter that will classify profit bonds as long-term debt instruments with a high credit rating.


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