Macroeconomic Factors and Pakistani Equity Market

Mohammed Nishat and Rozina Shaheen
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Mohammed Nishat: Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2004, vol. 43, issue 4, 619-637

Abstract: This paper analyzes long-term equilibrium relationships between a group of macroeconomic variables and the Karachi Stock Exchange Index. The macroeconomic variables are represented by the industrial production index, the consumer price index, M1, and the value of an investment earning the money market rate. We employ a vector error correction model to explore such relationships during 1973:1 to 2004:4. We found that these five variables are cointegrated and two long-term equilibrium relationships exist among these variables. Our results indicated a "causal" relationship between the stock market and the economy. Analysis of our results indicates that industrial production is the largest positive determinant of Pakistani stock prices, while inflation is the largest negative determinant of stock prices in Pakistan. We found that while macroeconomic variables Granger-caused stock price movements, the reverse causality was observed in case of industrial production and stock prices. Furthermore, we found that statistically significant lag lengths between fluctuations in the stock market and changes in the real economy are relatively short.

Keywords: Financial Market; Pakistan; Stock Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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