Trade policy uncertainty and its impact on the stock market -evidence from China-US trade conflict

Feng He, Brian Lucey and Ziwei Wang

Finance Research Letters, 2021, vol. 40, issue C

Abstract: We study the impact of international trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on equity markets. To capture the current tension in the relationship between China and the US, we use monthly stock market volatility and TPU indices of China and US from 2000 to 2019. By adopting a time-varying VAR model (TVP-SV-VAR), we find that TPU has heterogeneous effects on U.S. and China stock market. U.S. TPU has stronger impact on both U.S. and Chinese stock market. Time-varying characteristics show that U.S. - China trade conflicts have positive effect on U.S. stock market but a negative effect on Chinese stock market.

Keywords: Trade policy uncertainty; Stock market; Time-varying; TVP-SV-VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101753

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