a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C33 G10 O49 Q43 Keywords: Oil prices Stock market depth Economic growth Other macroeconomic variables Panel VAR Granger causality G-20 countries This paper examines the linkages between economic growth, oil prices, depth in the stock market, and three other key macroeconomic indicators: real effective exchange rate, inflation rate, and real rate of inte...

the present research aims to evaluate impacts of crude oil price return index, bloomberg petroleum index and bloomberg energy index on stock market returns of 121 companies listed in tehran stock exchange in a 10 years' period from early 2006 to april 2016. first, explanatory variables were aligned with petroleum products index mostly due to application of dollar data. subsequently, to che...

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the monetary policy instruments and to explore the extent to which macroeconomic variables affect the Romanian stock market’s behaviour in the 2000 – 2011 period with a GARCH-family system of simultaneous equations. Another rational of this research is to determine whether stocks are a good hedge against inflation on the Romanian financial mar...

Previously security market research had been focused mainly on developed economies with no attention paid to the security markets of developing countries of South East Asia. In an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, this paper conducts an empirical investigation of the random walk of security prices in Pakistani stock markets. The Augmented Dickey fuller test, Ljung Box Q test, Variance...

In this paper, we present a model that simulates the behaviour of a heterogenous collection of nancial traders on a market. Each trader is modelled as an autonomous, interactive agent and the agregation of their behavior results in market behaviour. We speci cally look at the role of information arriving at the market and the in uence of heterogeneity on market dynamics. The main conclusions ar...

This paper explains the relationship between the debt financing and market value from about 272 Chinese real estate companies, which are all from Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange between 2002 and 2007.We conduct an empirical study, the empirical results show that our country’s real estate listing of corporate debt financing relatively large proportion of total assets, average...

this paper investigates the asymmetry in volatility of returns for the iranian stock market using the daily closing values of the tehran exchange price index (tepix) covering the period from march 25, 2001 to july 25, 2012, with a total of 2743 observations. to this end, two sets of tests have been employed: the first set is based on the residuals derived from a symmetric garch (1,1) model. the...

Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factors of economic growth of a country. The impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important implications for monitory policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation and government policy towards financial markets. This study seeks evidence supporting the existence of share market efficiency based on the monthly da...

This paper presents a method for a short-term stock index prediction. The source data comes from the German Stock Exchange (being the target market) and two other markets (Tokyo Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange) together with EUR/USD and USD/JPY exchange rates. Neural networks supported by a genetic algorithm (GA) are used as the prediction engine. Except for promising numerical resul...