Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: The Case of Selected African Countries

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of stock market development on economic growth in 14 African countries in a dynamic panel data modelling setting. Results largely show a positive relationship between stock market development and economic growth. Further analyses, based on the level of economic development and stock market capitalization, are also conducted. The results reveal that the positive influence of stock market development on economic growth is significant for countries classified as upper middle income economies. On the basis of market capitalization groupings, stock market developments play a significant role in growth only for moderately capitalized markets. The general trend in results shows that low income African countries and less developed stock markets need to grow more and develop their markets to elicit economic gains from stock markets.     

中国股票价格指数与宏观经济关系的实证研究

股票市场与经济增长之间的关系是经济学界中极富争议性的一个话题,而股票价格是否能反映国民经济状况,也是当前研究的热点问题。本文选择股票价格指数与经济增长,货币供应量以及进出口额的关系进行研究,通过协整检验等计量分析方法得出:中国股票价格指数和宏观经济增长指标相关性不强,股票价格指数在我国尚未起到"晴雨表"作用。     

Stock market development and economic growth in Belgium

This paper investigates the long-term relationship between financial market development and economic development in Belgium. We use a new data set of stock market development indicators to argue that financial market development substantially affected economic growth. We find strong evidence that stock market development caused economic growth in Belgium, especially in the period between 1873 and 1935. Institutional changes affecting the stock exchange explain the time-varying nature of the link between stock market development and economic growth.     

我国股价指数波动与宏观经济关系研究

本文以上证综合指数为研究对象,选取工业增加值、货币供应量、银行间同业拆借利率、居民消费价格指数等宏观经济变量作为解释变量,采用月度数据,对上证综合指数进行协整分析。分析证明上证综合指数与部分宏观经济变量之间存在协整关系,上证综合指数与货币供应量、同业拆借利率之间长期呈正相关关系,与居民消费价格指数负相关;并且上证综合指数与消费价格指数存在因果关系,与其他变量均不存在因果关系。这意味着我国股票市场虽然可以在一定程度上反映宏观经济的发展情况,但效率不高。     

宏观经济与股票市场：来自A股的实践

近年来中国股票市场运行与宏观经济表现之间呈现出复杂的关系,股票市场自身的波动更是招致颇多争议。本文运用因果关系等分析方法进行实证研究,力图探求这种复杂关系背后的本质。从实际上证指数和经济变量绝对值来看,笔者利用相关数据进行了实证检验,发现GDP值、社会货币供应量这2个经济变量对整个股票市场的具有明显影响,上证指数与经济变量之间存在显著的因果关系。     

股票市场、金融中介与经济增长的实证研究

金融发展是影响经济增长的至关重要的因素之一,本文利用2003²013年的季度数据,通过构建联立方程模型,使用广义矩估计(GMM)方法研究了中国股票市场、金融中介与经济增长之间的关系。实证结果表明:股票市场发展并不是经济增长的原因,而经济增长促进了股票市场繁荣;金融中介的发展促进经济增长,而经济增长时由于金融中介的逆向操作往往使得金融中介的总体规模降低;股票市场发展与金融中介发展相互促进。据此,我们认为我过的金融市场还不够完善,应进一步完善体制,规范操作,促进经济协调发展。     

The impact of economic fundamentals on stock markets in southern Africa

The issue of whether stock markets reflect economic fundamentals or speculative bubbles is an important one for their potential role in allocating capital, and relates to a policy issue of whether stock markets should be encouraged in developing countries. This article examines the impact of both domestic and foreign economic factors on real stock market returns in three southern African stock markets – South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, from 1985-95 – using cointegration and error correction techniques. It finds that, while in all cases stock markets are influenced by domestic economic growth, there are no common patterns beyond this. The influence of other domestic and economic variables depends on the size, openness and market-orientation of the individual economies, as well as the size and liquidity of the various stock exchanges. Where foreign economic variables are important, they appear to be those related to trade, rather than international capital flows, indicating that there is little integration of these capital markets, whether regionally or internationally.     

我国股票市场与国民经济运行关系的实证研究

本文从分析上证指数及与股票市场密切相关的国民经济运行变量的时间序列入手,依据现代动态计量学的理论与方法,对我国股市和国民经济运行之间的关系进行了具体的分析,从而建立了一个向量自回归(VAR)模型,并在此基础上得出我国股市与经济运行之间的长期均衡关系和短期变动的向量误差修正(VEC)模型。实证研究的结果表明,目前股市背离国民经济运行只是暂时的现象,在一段较长的时期内,我国的股市发展依然受到国民经济运行状况的制约。     

金融中介、股票市场与经济增长:基于联立方程模型的实证分析

文章利用1998～2009年的季度数据,通过构建联立方程模型,利用GMM估计方法系统考察了中国金融中介、股票市场与经济增长之间的相互关系.实证研究结果表明:金融中介发展与经济增长二者相互影响,但作用方向不同:金融中介的总体规模对经济发展的影响为负;经济增长对于金融中介的发展存在显著的正向作用;股票市场发展与经济增长二者...     

2004年国家宏观调控政策与股市走势的联动性分析

在现代经济发展条件下,股市是国民经济的晴雨表,经济运行中的变化会迅速、放大反映在股市的涨跌变动中。我国股市现在是典型的政策市,受国家宏观经济政策影响巨大,每次有较大政策出台时,都会带来股市的大幅波动。文章通过对近十几年来我国宏观调控政策变动引起的变动的分析,以     

宏观经济因素对我国股票市场波动影响的实证分析

股票市场的发展与一国的宏观经济因素存在密切的联系,本文选取工业增加值增长率,居民消费价格指数、利率、汇率、货币供应量、上证综合指数这6个变量建立VAR模型,并进行脉冲响应分析,对宏观经济因素对我国股票市场价格变动的影响进行定量分析。分析得出宏观经济因素与股票价格波之间存在长期稳定的均衡关系,并且货币政策只有很微弱的影响作用。     

关于中国股市暴涨暴跌的思考

股市与经济密切相关,经济发展带动股市发展,而股市的稳健运行也有助于经济发展。我国股市频繁的暴涨暴跌既损害了股市正常功能的发挥,也影响了经济发展。本文从我国股市暴涨暴跌现象描述入手,在分析中国股市暴涨暴跌的危害及其导致原因的基础上,提出了促进中国股市稳健运行的因应策略。     

MACROECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY AND CONDITIONAL STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY IN SOUTH AFRICA*

This paper analyses how systematic risk emanating from the macroeconomy is transmitted into stock market volatility using augmented autoregressive Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (AR‐GARCH) and vector autoregression (VAR) models. Also examined is whether the relationship between the two is bidirectional. By imposing dummies for the 1997‐1998 Asian and the 2007‐2009 sub‐prime financial crises, the study further analyses whether financial crises affect the relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and stock market volatility. The findings show that macroeconomic uncertainty significantly influences stock market volatility. Although volatilities in inflation, the gold price and the oil price seem to play a role, it is found that volatility in short‐term interest rates and exchange rates are the most important, suggesting that South African domestic financial markets are increasingly becoming interdependent. Finally, the results show that financial crises increase volatility in the stock market and in most macroeconomic variables, and, by so doing, strengthen the effects of changes in macroeconomic variables on the stock market.     

Stock Markets,Banks and Long Run Economic Growth: A Panel Cointegration-Based Analysis

The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these three variables for 5 developing countries. In addition, we test the direction of potential causality between financial and economic development. Our results conclude to the existence of a single cointegrating vector between financial development and growth and of causality going from financial development to economic growth. We find little evidence of reverse causation as well as bi-directional causality. We interpret this as evidence supporting the significance of financial development for economic development although banks and stock markets may have different effects depending on the level of economic development.     

危机后对“华盛顿共识”和“北京共识”的思考——关于经济自由与经济增长的经验分析

本文分别使用世界各国的截面数据和中国的时间序列数据分析经济自由度指数与经济增长率的关系。结果表明,在控制了劳动力人口、资本存量以及人力资本等变量后,经济自由度与经济增长率之间存在非常密切的正向(因果)关系。我们的工作不仅为亚当.斯密的自由经济理论提供了新证据,而且证明了中国的经济增长正是得益于经济自由度的提高,中国并不是自由经济理论的一个例外。     

Does the price of oil interact with clean energy prices in the stock market?

In this paper, we analyze the relationships among oil prices, clean energy stock prices, and technology stock prices, endogenously controlling for structural changes in the market. To this end, we apply Markov-switching vector autoregressive models to the economic system consisting of oil prices, clean energy and technology stock prices, and interest rates. The results indicate that there was a structural change in late 2007, a period in which there was a significant increase in the price of oil. In contrast to the previous studies, we find a positive relationship between oil prices and clean energy prices after structural breaks. There also appears to be a similarity in terms of the market response to both clean energy stock prices and technology stock prices.     

基于因果联系的中国股市异常波动归纳分析——以st类股票发布资产重组公告与股价异动的关系为例

提出了利用因果联系分析中国股市股价异常波动的思路。结合该思路,通过对st类股票（连续三个涨停的）股价异动与上市公司发布资产重组公告的关系进行实证分析,认为中国股市st类上市公司可以通过发布确定资产重组的公告来控制股价,导致股价连续三个涨停;在资产重组的过程中,一定程度上存在着内幕消息,在股价出现连续三个涨停之后,公司被迫公布消息。     

通货膨胀与股票收益关系的实证分析——对中国股票市场的费雪效应检验

本文利用2001～2011年沪市和深市股票收益率与CPI的月度数据,对两者之间的关系进行了实证分析,结果表明:无论是实际股票收益率还是名义股票收益率与CPI之间都是正相关关系。从而说明,通货膨胀对实际经济增长有刺激作用,股票是抵御通货膨胀的良好投资品。     

机构投资者与股市波动的实证研究——基于上证2005～2010年的季度面板数据

本文采用上证2005~2010年共24个季度数据的面板数据,采用固定效应模型,实证分析了机构持股比例与股市收益率波动之间的关系,以探讨机构投资者能否真正起到缓解股市收益率波动的作用。实证结果表明,机构持股比例与股市收益率波动具有显著的正向关系,即机构投资者比例的增加反而使得股市收益率波动上升,因此监管当局希望在现阶段大力引进机构投资者来缓解股市波动的愿望可能很难实现。     

Financial market integration, stock markets and exchange rate dynamics in Eastern Europe

International capital flows in a system of flexible exchange rates will affect stock market dynamics and stock market developments should affect capital flows and the exchange rate respectively. In this analysis, four accession countries have been considered in order to examine any potential links between nominal stock market index and nominal exchange rate. For this purpose, monthly data were used. The cointegration concept was employed for testing long-term links and the VAR approach for short-term links. Finally, Granger causality tests were employed for the determination of the exogenous and endogenous variables. The results show that significant links exist between the stock market index and the foreign exchange rate for three countries, where for Poland, both long-term and short-term links exist. The other key aspect considered in this analysis is the stock market integration in Eastern European countries. Our analysis shows that the integration of the stock markets in Eastern European countries seems to be rather week except for the Hungarian stock market. This means that only the Hungarian stock market is integrated. A standard regression analysis reveals that the Hungarian market exhibits a strong co-movement with the benchmark market, i.e. the German stock market. Furthermore, there is a clear-cut result with respect to the dynamic of stock market synchronization. The degree of synchronization increased particularly in the period 2005–2008.