Index Funds and Stock Market Growth*

investigating the relationship between mutual funds flows and the stock index in tehran stock market

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationshipbetween the mutual funds flows and the return of stock index using 65mutual funds in the period of 2008 to 2011.in this study, the dailychanges of the total number of units of mutual funds and the changesof the total values of units of mutual funds were considered as acriteria for the net of mutual funds flows. the results of johansen ...

Revisiting stock market index correlations

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Comovement of stock market indices increases during volatile periods, and does not come down when the turmoil settles down. This paper explains formation of persistent comovements during high volatility periods with theories from Bayesian learning. My main conclusion is that the correlation that is formed during the high volatility period is persistent beca...

Banks, Stock Market And Economic Growth: The Case Of Iran

Financial Dependence, Stock Market Liberalizations, and Growth

Stock market liberalizations provide a natural experiment to test for the causal relation between financial development and economic growth. We test this relation by investigating whether liberalizations facilitate growth through the particular mechanism of reducing capital market imperfections that drive a wedge between the external and internal cost of capital to firms. Using panel data on a ...

Stock market development and economic growth

Since the 1990s economists have devoted considerable attention to the study of the relationship between financial markets development and economic growth. In particular, the emergence of stock markets with economic development is an intriguing and interesting aspect of such a relationship, and yet relatively unexplored. This paper examines the most recent findings in the theoretical and empiric...