Euro area stock markets performance comparison and its dependence on macroeconomic variables

José Soares Da Fonseca

International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2016, vol. 9, issue 3, 245-266

Abstract: This paper compares the performance of 11 euro area stock markets through the estimation of market models with betas dependent on the stock indexes levels and a certain number of their past changes. Time-varying Treynor ratios are then calculated and a vector autoregressive model (VAR) of the Treynor ratios is used to estimate the performance causality between this group of markets. The VAR model estimations provide evidence that there is reciprocal performance influence between the majority of these stock markets. Finally, the Treynor ratios dependence on a group of macroeconomic variables (real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, inflation rate, long-term public debt interest rates and public budget deficit ratio) was estimated by panel data regression methods. According to the evidence provided by these estimations, the long-term interest rate is the macroeconomic variable that most clearly affects the performance differences between these domestic stock markets.

Keywords: ARDL; autoregressive distributed lag; Euro area; Eurozone; time-varying betas; Treynor ratios; stock markets; stock market performance; performance comparison; macroeconomic variables; real GDP; gross domestic product; growth rate; inflation rate; long-term interest rates; public debt interest rates; public budget deficit ratio. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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