Monetary Policy and the Stock Market: Some International evidence

Christos Ioannidis and Alexandros Kontonikas ()

Working Papers from Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of monetary policy on stock returns in thirteen OECD countries over the period 1972-2002. Our results indicate that monetary policy shifts significantly affect stock returns, thereby supporting the notion of monetary policy transmission via the stock market. Our contribution with respect to previous work is threefold. First, we show that our findings are robust to various alternative measures of stock returns. Second, our inferences are adjusted for the non-normality exhibited by the stock returns data. Finally, we take into account the increasing co-movement among international stock markets. The sensitivity analysis indicates that the results remain largely unchanged.

JEL-codes: E44 E52 E60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-09
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