Nexus between Stock Market Returns and Economic Variables: Evidence

Petrochemical Products Market and Stock Market Returns: Empirical Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange

While the relationship between stock market return and oil price is of great interest to researchers, previous studies do not investigate stock market return with petrochemical products market. In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between prices of main petrochemical products and stock returns of petrochemical companies in Tehran stock exchange. Using a panel data model and GLS estimatio...

Economic Exposure of Stock Returns in an Emerging Stock Market

The objective of the study is to examine the stock returns variation to specific economic variables by applying multi-factor model developed under Arbitrage Pricing Theory. The variables in the model are descriptive of the market and economic conditions of the country. The study attempts to determine which, if any, of the variables are of use in explaining the variability of stock returns of Pa...

Causal nexus between economic growth, banking sector development, stock market development, and other macroeconomic variables: The case of ASEAN countries

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: O43 O16 E44 E31 Keywords: Banking sector Stock market Economic growth Granger causality ASEAN countries This paper examines the relationship between banking sector development, stock market development, economic growth, and four other macroeconomic variables in ASEAN countries for the period 1961–2012. Using principal component analysis for the construc...

Exploring relation between Indian market sentiments and stock market returns

Causal nexus between economic growth, inflation, and stock market development: The case of OECD countries

Available online 30 April 2015 This paper investigates cointegration relationships and Granger causality nexus in a trivariate framework among economic growth, inflation, and stock market development. Utilizing three measures of stock market development and employing a panel vector autoregressive model, we study 34 OECD countries over the time period of 1960–2012. Our novel panel-data estimatio...