Macroeconomic indicators and stock market returns in emerging economies: The case of Vietnam
Abstract
The prime contribution of this research is that it provides various empirical
results regarding the bivariate and multivariate causality and cointegrating
relationships between Vietnam’s stock market returns and macroeconomic variables,
specifically those pertaining to economic growth (GDP), consumer price index (CPI),
broad money supply (M2), interest rates (IR – including deposit rate DR, lending rate
LR, and refinancing rate FR), foreign exchange rate USD/VND (EX), and foreign
direct investment (FDI).
The robustness of Vector Autoregressive (VAR) and Generalized
Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) frameworks were tested for
Vietnam, which is a new emerging market. Using an updated data set of 161 monthly
observations collected for the period from August 2000 to December 2013, a unique
equation that represents the linkage among variables of interest was established.
Particularly, a wide range of techniques, including unit root tests, Johansen
cointegration tests, Granger causality tests, dynamic analysis (impulse response
function and variance decomposition) were employed, which demonstrated that the
VN-Index corresponds to long run, and also short run, path of selected
macroeconomic variables. Furthermore, taking the volatility clustering into account,
GARCH (1,1) models reveal the predictability of stock market volatilities using
previous shocks (i.e. those originating from GDP, CPI and EX) rather than the
previous volatility itself. The discussion of empirical findings has additionally been
substantiated and corroborated via a field questionnaire, which gathered views of
experts who are directly or indirectly involved with Vietnam’s stock market.
The empirical results, along with the outcome of the empirical survey, provide
the basis for policy and investment implications, emphasizing that using
macroeconomic indicators would be beneficial to policy-makers, as well as securities
investors, in promoting the development of Vietnam’s stock market. The addition of
external shocks (i.e. global crash 2007-2008) and/or other portfolios of stocks
(VN30-Index, HNX-Index, HNX30-Index, UPCoM-Index) could be considered in further
research.
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PhD Thesis - School of Management
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