Financial Deregulation And The Relationship Between The Economy And The Share Market In Australia

Nicolaas Groenewold

Australian Economic Papers, 2003, vol. 42, issue 4, 454-477

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the effect of financial deregulation on the relationship between the macro‐economy and the share market within the framework of a VAR using quarterly Australian data for four variables – aggregate share prices, real output, the term premium and the default premium. After an analysis of stationarity and cointegration of the variables, we specify the VAR in the first differences of the logs of share prices and output and the levels of the premia. We identify December 1983 as the most appropriate date for testing for a structural break in our model due to financial deregulation and find strong evidence supporting our hypothesis of a break at this date. We go on to estimate and simulate the model separately over two sub‐samples: 1978(1)–1983(4) and 1984(1)–2001(2). While our results are not clear‐cut, we find that, if anything, the deregulation of financial markets weakened the relationship between the share market and the rest of the economy.

Date: 2003
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