Stock Prices and Inflation: New Evidence from the Pacific-Basin Countries
This paper investigates the statistical relationship between stock prices and inflation in nine countries in the Pacific-Basin. On balance, regression analysis on the nine markets shows negative relationships between stock returns in real terms and inflation in the short run, while co-integration tests on the same markets display a positive relationship between the same variables over the long run. The time path of the response of stock prices plotted against corresponding changes in consumer price indices validates this dichotomy in time-related response patterns of stock prices to inflation; namely, a blip of negative responses at the beginning changes to a positive response over a longer period of time. Stock prices in Asia, like those in the U.S. and Europe, appear to reflect a time-varying memory associated with inflation shocks that make stock portfolios a reasonably good hedge against inflation in the long run.
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2004
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Authors: | Al-Khazali, Osamah M. ; Pyun, Chong Soo |
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Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. - Springer. - Vol. 22.2004, 2, p. 123-140
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Springer |
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