Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Karachi Stock Market Returns

Javed Pervaiz, Junaid Masih and Teng Jian-Zhou

International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 28-34

Abstract: The study examines the impact of selected macroeconomic variables (inflation, exchange rate, interest rate) on Karachi stock market returns. Mainly secondary data used in the research process. The study consists of data for the period of 10 years and 5 months starting from January 2007 till May 2017. For this purpose, monthly data of KSE-100 index has been observed for the period January 2007 to May 2017. The market returns have been calculated through the opening and closing index value of each month. The inflation, interest rate, and exchange rate has been taken as independent variables. Hypotheses have been tested to find out whether there exists a significant relationship between the Stock market return and macroeconomic variables or not. To test this hypothesis, Regression analysis used and results are calculated through Stata software.

Keywords: Pakistan; macroeconomic variables; KSE returns; stock prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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