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Research Project
(IMPACT OF MACRO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON STOCK PRICES
AND A COMPARITIVE STUDY OF THE STOCK INDICES OF BRIC
COUNTRIES)
•Objectives:
•Find the causal relationships among the macro-economic variables and stock
price indices.
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FINDINGS FROM THE EXISTING LITERATURE
Author Year Framework Findings
Chen, Roll 1986 Arbitrage Pricing Theory Reason for mispriced assets
and Ross predicted through an empirical
relation between interest rates,
inflation and industrial production.
Friedman 1988 Ando and Modigliani Wealth effect will dominate and
“Wealth effect and demand for money and stock prices
Substitution effect” will be positively related.
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Purpose of the Project
This study will add to the existing literature by providing robust results of how the
macro-variables are co-integrated with the stock index by analyzing data for 31 odd
years (1980 to 2010) and find the causal relationships among the macro-economic
variables and stock indices. A comparison of the stock indices of BRIC countries will
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Variables Used
• 1. BSE SENSEX: Oldest Stock Exchange, enjoys being the financial capital. BSE
SENSEX or “BSE 30” is made of thirty scripts which is regarded as an
index of Indian Capital Market.
• 2. Money Supply: Given GDP and the prices, a certain amount of money is required to
carry out the economic activities. Serves both as a store of value and
medium of exchange.
• 3. Crude Oil Prices:
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Companies in BSE Sensex
RELIANCE INFOSYS ICICI BANK I T C LTD LARSEN & HOUSING HDFC BANK STATE BANK TCS LTD. ONG CORP
TECH L TOU DEVE LT OF INDIA LTD
12.18 10.28 7.82 6.4 5.86 5.81 5.34 5.28 4.58 3.25
BHARTI TATA STL TATA BHEL NTPC LTD MAHINDRA HINDALCO HIND UNI LT STERLITE IN JINDAL
ARTL MOTORS &M IN STEEL
3.09 2.85 2.83 2.4 1.97 2.12 1.89 2.16 1.73 1.94
WIPRO LTD. TATA BAJAJ AUTO MARUTISUZ CIPLA LTD. HEROHOND REL INFRA JAIPRAK DLF REL COM
POWER UK AM ASSO LIMITED LTD
1.89 1.35 1.29 1.22 1.1 1.03 0.63 0.64 0.63 0.44
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Sector-wise Division
Autom Techno Banks & FMCG Oil
obile logy Finance
8.49
Real Estate Comm Metal Power HE Pharm
a
LARSEN 5.86BHARTI ARTL 3.09TATA STL 2.85NTPC LTD 1.97BHEL 2.4CIPLA 1.1
& TOU LTD.
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Methodology Adopted
• Phase 1: Choosing Variables
Independent variables: Money supply, exchange rate, inflation, interest rates, crude oil
prices, GDP of the country. Investment made by the FIIs is also considered from the
period 1991.
Dependent variable: BSE Sensex
Descriptive statistics and correlation matrix
LSENSEX LEXR LGDP LINFLATION LINT LMS LOP
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Correlation Matrix
LEXR LGDP LINFLATI LINT LMS LOP LSENSEX
ON
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Time-Series Graphs
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Time-Series Graphs
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Unit root test
• Ho: The variables used have a presence of Unit root.
• H1: The variables used do not have a unit root.
Variable ADF PP
Level Of Significance
t-stats
LSENSEX 0.5833 0.5922 Probability
LOP 0.879 0.879 1%
-3.79
LMS 0.5096 0.0431
0.0386
LINT 0.868 0.8886 5%
-3.66
LINFLATION 0.0943 0.114
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Johansen’s Co-integration Test
Ho: No co-integration equation exists between the variables used.
H1: There exists a co-integration equation between the variables.
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GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST
Pairwise Granger
Causality Tests
Null Hypothesis: Obs F-Statistic Probability Accept
Hypothesis
GDP does not 29 0.09315 0.91139Accept
Granger Cause EXR
EXR does not 0.26878 0.76658
Granger Cause GDP
INFLATION does not 30 0.90588 0.41704Reject
Granger Cause EXR
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What Next?
• Apply multiple regression Analysis and read articles and understand the
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Queries and Suggestions
Thank You
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