Structural changes in exchange rate-stock returns dynamics in South Africa: examining the role of crisis and new trading platform

Andrew Phiri

Economic Change and Restructuring, 2020, vol. 53, issue 1, No 9, 193 pages

Abstract: Abstract The 2007 sub-prime crisis and the adoption of Millennium trading platform represent two of the most important recent structural developments for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Under an environment of flexible and volatile exchange rates, this study seeks to examine the effects of these two structural events on the exchange rate-equity returns nexus for 4 JSE indices using the nonlinear autoregressive distributive lag cointegration. We use monthly data collected from 2000:M01 to 2017:M12, and conduct our empirical analysis over sub-periods corresponding to breaks caused by the crisis and the use of a new trading platform. We find prior the crisis exchange rates appreciations generally cause stock returns whereas depreciations are unlikely to cause stock returns to decrease. However, during crisis period this relationship entire disappears whilst resurfacing subsequent to the adoption of a new trading platform although the dynamics of the time series differs between sectors. Our overall empirical results caution regulatory authorities to closely monitor stock market developments as the new trading platform offers market participants opportunities of using the exchange rate to beat the market.

Keywords: Stock returns; Exchange rates; High frequency trading; Millennium trading platform; N-ARDL model; Flexible Fourier form unit root test; South Africa; Emerging economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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