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BOHR International Journal of Finance and Market Research
2022, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 112–117
https://doi.org/10.54646/bijfmr.018
www.bohrpub.com
Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices: A Granger
Causality Approach
Sachit Paliwal∗ and Shipra Saxena
Department of Management, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India
∗Corresponding author: paliwaal@gmail.com
Abstract. The Granger causality model is used in the current study to analyze the short-run cause–effect relationship
between two stock market indices between 2001 and 2021 using time series data of the daily closing prices of the BSE
Sensex and S&P 500 indices listed in the Indian and US stock markets, respectively. The Granger causality model and
the augmented Dickey–Fuller test for data stationarity were used in the study to examine the short-term causal link
between two market indices during the time period. The outcomes demonstrated the connection between the Indian
and US stock markets. The findings imply that both markets have a dynamic, bidirectional relationship. This study
provides the investor’s essential inputs for investment decision-making and portfolio diversification. In the current
era of globalization, the study is crucial because investors and fund managers now place a high priority on stock
market integration. Through fund diversification across equity markets, this study subsequently makes it easier to
reduce portfolio risk by providing useful insights on diversification strategies across the stock markets.
Keywords: BSE Sensex, S&P 500, Granger causality test, augmented Dickey–Fuller test.
INTRODUCTION
Stock markets observe the growth of autocorrelations in
stock return patterns as a result of the capital markets’
openness to international investors [12]. These autocorre-
lations in stock returns demonstrate a type of dynamic
association of time series data and explain how investors
make investment decisions. According to the phenomenon
of autocorrelation, one stock market has a significant influ-
ence on another (Rakesh and Dhankar 2009).
These influences of one market on another are known
as “conditional volatility” due to the autoregressive condi-
tional hetero-skedasticity (ARCH) effect in the data (peri-
ods of high volatility are followed by periods of high
volatility, and periods of low volatility are followed by
periods of low volatility in stock return data) and the
presence of the ARCH effect in the volatility cluster of stock
return data. More specifically, it contends that significant
volatility in stock returns frequently follows more minor
changes and vice versa. It highlights the fact that past
trends of investment in foreign and domestic markets have
had an impact on current investment decisions.
These changes in the form of clusters in stock return
data represent conditional volatility. Further to this, the
conditional volatility concept suggests that the present
volatility of stock return is determined by the past volatility
of stock return (also known as an independent variable
to measure the volatility of stock return for the present
time period). With the aid of the Granger causality model,
the current study seeks to identify the dynamic interaction
between the two markets (i.e., the stock markets of the
United States and India).
The Indian stock market has many US investors, which
implies that the US market volatility has a great impact
on the Indian stock market. Several empirical analyses
also suggest a dynamic association between the volatility
of these two stock markets (the United States and India).
Furthermore, the United States was one of India’s most
important commercial partners.
Because of the United States and India’s positive eco-
nomic and commercial relations, India’s exports to the
United States represented 17.4% of total exports during the
1995–1996 period and climbed to 22.8 percentage points
during the 1999–2000 period. For the same time frame,
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Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices 113
imports made up 10.5% and 7.2% of all imports, respec-
tively. Due to India’s concentration on other emerging
nations following the 2002–2003 era, the percentage of total
exports decreased.
The current study’s objective is to test the idea that capi-
tal transfers between markets affect trade volume, creating
a highly integrated stock market. The Granger causality
test was used in the study to examine the causal connec-
tion between the two time series (the United States and
India) and determine whether they are complementary
for forecasting. Many academics often employ the ARCH
approach to determine the conditional volatility of stock
markets.
The residuals in ARCH modeling are calculated using
the mean equation, transferred to the variance equation
to further assess the residual normality distribution, and
finally the best fit model is determined using the Akaike
information criterion (AIC) and/or SIC criterion. The
residuals are also known as error terms, and in ARCH
modeling conditional variance becomes a function of his-
torical variance. Furthermore, this method allows histori-
cal variance to change over time [10].
According to [10], unanticipated variations in stock
returns over time have a substantial impact on the stock
market’s volatility. Bollerslev [5] expanded the ARCH pro-
cess by enabling the conditional variance to be a function
of both the lagged value of the conditional variance and
the past error term. Its fundamental tenet is that investors’
present decision-making is significantly influenced by the
residuals (past error term), which also influences their
historical volatility. Since Engle initially described them in
1982 and [6] subsequently extended them, these models
have been frequently used to explain and model the time
series data of stock markets.
The paper consists of five sections: (a) the section titled,
“Introduction” introduces the concept with explanation
of aim of the study; (b) the section titled, “Literature
Review” elaborates the extant literature related to the
study; (c) the section titled, “Data and Research Method-
ology” follows the “Literature Review” section; (d) the
section titled, “Empirical Findings” follows the “Data and
Research Methodology” section; and (e) the section titled,
“Conclusions and Implications of the Study” concludes the
paper.
LITERATURE REVIEW
The current study credits Grubel’s [14] investigation into
the advantages of world diversity as the source of its
inspiration. Due to the continuing liberalization of emerg-
ing markets, investors are diversifying their portfolios
to reduce risk. Whenever there is a negative correlation
between stock returns in different markets, international
diversification should help the investor reduce risk.
The information from one market can be used to fore-
cast the movement of another market if the stock returns
of different countries are positively correlated. Scholars
have tried to quantify the connectedness between the
stock markets. This relationship is termed “dynamic inter-
dependence,” and it consists of four measures of mar-
ket dynamic linkage, i.e., “cause and effect” (causality),
“spillover effect” (both market volatility and return), ”co-
integration,” and “connectedness” [20].
Existing literature investigates and explores all four
measures to identify market dynamic linkages in various
sample periods and market conditions using various tech-
niques and models. Co-integration, correlations, the uni-
variate Granger causality model, the GARCH (p, q) model,
and the ARMA-GARCH model were previously used to
estimate dynamic linkages between stock market return
and volatility spillover. For example, [26] found through
cross-spectral analysis that there was a weak relationship
between the Indian market and other global markets.
A two-stage GARCH model was used in several types of
research to examine the dynamic interaction between stock
markets utilizing daytime and overnight returns (Rakesh
and Dhankar 2010). In order to estimate the overnight
returns of the other market, the authors first used the
unanticipated shocks from one market’s daytime returns
as a stand-in for volatility surprises. Studies by [21] show
a strong link between stock market gains and periods
of high volatility. However, these studies found that this
connection changes over time.
Moreover, based on the identified connectedness among
the financial markets globally, recent researchers con-
ducted a study on the dynamic linkages between macroe-
conomic variables and stock markets across the globe.
The studies use advanced econometric techniques such
as VAR-GARCH-BEKK, GVAR, GARCH-BEKK, BEKK-
MGARCH, and others to identify dynamic linkages such
as spillover effect, contagion, shock transmission, and so
on [2, 16, 20]. But there is no superior model due to varied
market conditions [17].
For example, [19] investigated trade interdependency
among four South Asian countries. The author applied the
Granger causality model to test short-run causality among
the markets. The result highlights a short-run, bidirectional
causal relationship among stock markets in India, Pakistan,
and Sri Lanka.
Similarly, a study was conducted to determine the
degree of interconnectedness between the US equity mar-
ket and seven European markets. The study employs a
nonlinear causality test to assess the dynamic relationship
between market returns and volatility in both crisis and
boom markets. The result highlights the existence of mar-
ket connectedness across countries, which sheds light on
portfolio diversification strategies for investors [20].
A few studies are also being conducted on identify-
ing the linkages between the crypto-currency market and
the stock market [2, 16, 30]. The studies suggested a
link between stock market returns and cryptocurrency.
The study also provides evidence of volatility spillover
114 Sachit Paliwal and Shipra Saxena
(unidirectional and/or bidirectional) between stock mar-
kets and the crypto-currency market. However, these stud-
ies found that this connection changes over time.
Furthermore, extant research that used the Granger
causality model suggests that the US stock market sig-
nificantly influences the integration of other stock mar-
kets [24]. According to several studies that looked at
group stock markets, there is a significant interconnected-
ness between the stock markets (cf. Jong and Roon 2005;
[2]; [16]; Peng et al., 2020). The results of Forbes and
Rigobon’s [13] study, which found both long- and short-
term connectedness among the stock markets, support the
market’s interconnectedness. In the same line of thought,
[7] discovered compelling evidence that monetary factors
impact global interdependencies among stock markets.
Moreover, [23] back up the widely held belief that there
is a significant short-run and long-run association between
emerging Asian markets and the well-established OECD
markets.
As a result, a few studies concluded that the Indian and
US stock markets were not interdependent. For example,
[1] investigated the dynamic relationship of stock markets
between the United States and India using the Johansen
co-integration test and found no evidence of interdepen-
dency between the United States and Indian stock markets.
Despite the existence of the NAFTA pact, [11] discovered
that there is no market integration among the North Amer-
ican countries.
According to some empirical studies, there are dynamic
relationships between financial indicators and stock mar-
kets [7, 24]. Furthermore, the US stock market consistently
outperforms other developed economies in both the short
and long run. The integration of the Australian stock mar-
ket with the US and Japanese markets before and during
the Asian financial crisis was also studied by [28].
The study discovered evidence of long-run correlation
among three markets prior to the Asian crisis, but corre-
lation among stock markets weakens after the crisis. The
study also demonstrates lesser interdependency between
the stock markets of the United States and Australia
than the Japanese and Austrian stock markets, which are
nonetheless somewhat interdependent. The author used
the VAR-BEKK-GARCH method to demonstrate the inter-
dependency between major East Asian markets and the
bitcoin markets proposed by [30].
The outcome suggests that the Japanese and Hong Kong
stock markets are moderately dependent on each other.
Moreover, the stock markets have significant spillover risks
to other markets. Wong et al. (2004) examined the market
integration of India with the United States, the United
Kingdom, and Japan. The co-integration model and the
Granger causality model were used to calculate short- and
long-run correlation.
The authors found a long-run correlation between all
three markets (the United States, the United Kingdom,
and Japan) and the Indian market, and that it has evolved
to reflect their traits. However, in the short run, the UK
stock exchange influences the Indian stock exchange and
vice versa; the Indian stock exchange has no influence
on the US or Japanese stock exchanges and vice versa.
Yochanan [29] estimated dynamic linkages among the
BRIC countries using vector autoregression (VAR) models
and found strong linkages among the countries.
The study concludes that all four member markets
become more significant as globalization progresses more
quickly. Additionally, using the Impulse Response model,
the impact of market volatility in the United States, Japan,
and India on the Bangladesh stock market was examined.
The study discovered that the Bangladesh stock market
was significantly impacted by US volatility. However, the
volatility of the Japanese and Indian stock markets has little
effect on the Bangladesh stock market.
Based on the extant literature, it can be concluded that
most of the researchers indicate a high level of market
integration among countries, which is increasing. Even
though few studies contest this occurrence and find no
evidence of a dynamic link between the markets [1, 11, 18].
DATA AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The current study estimates how closely related the US and
Indian stock markets are to one another by calculating their
conditional volatilities. The daily prices of the NYSE-listed
S&P 500 index and the Bombay Stock Exchange’s (BSE)
Sensex index are included in the sample data. Data were
collected between January 2001 and December 2021.
The majority of the 500 large-cap stocks that make up
the S&P 500 index are American. It is contained in the
value-weighted components of the important S&P 1500
and S&P Global 1200 stock market indexes. The NYSE and
NASDAQ, the two biggest US stock exchanges, are where
all the index’s component equities are traded.
It includes roughly 75% of the market and 75% of
the market capitalization for US stocks. Another value-
weighted index made up of 30 large-cap companies with
active trading markets is the BSE Sensex.
The study contains a thorough analysis of the enhanced
Dickey–Fuller test for determining data stationarity using
E-Views v.20 and the Jarque–Bera test for determining
conditional volatility using the Granger causality model.
Initially, natural logarithmic differences are used in the
estimation of stock market returns. The index’s price in
time period t should be represented by Pt, and its price in
time period t − 1 should be represented by Pt−1.
As a result, the rate of return Rit investors will experience
over the course of time will be
Rt = [Loge(Pt) − Loge(Pt−1)] ∗ 100 (1)
Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices 115
EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
Preliminary Results
Table 1 shows the summary statistics for the return price
for both time series of data, i.e., the US stock market (S&P
500) and the Indian stock market (BSE Sensex). In addition,
the mean value determines the average return prices of
both indices. Table 1 further indicates the positive average
return prices of both the S&P 500 and the BSE Sensex, indi-
cating an increase over the period. The skewness values
suggest that both indices are positively skewed.
The positive skewness suggests that most data values
shift toward the higher side. As a result, both indices have a
better likelihood of producing profitable returns. The S&P
500 return has a larger tail than the conventional normal
distribution, according to high values of kurtosis, whereas
the BSE Sensex return has a low value of kurtosis.
To ascertain whether the data are distributed normally,
the Jarque–Bera test is also used. The test’s null hypothesis
was that the data had a normally distributed distribution.
The analysis demonstrates that the data are not normally
distributed because the p-value is less than 0.05, which
disproves the null hypothesis. This demonstrates that the
US and Indian stock markets’ returns are not allocated in a
consistent manner.
Unit Root Test
There is a need to analyze whether the data is stationary
or not to conduct econometric modeling. It is the basic
assumption for conducting econometric modeling on time
series data. Table 2 shows the group unit root test at the
first level.
The BSE Sensex and S&P 500 indices’ returning prices
were evaluated for data stationarity using the augmented
Dickey–Fuller test. According to Table 2, both series have
a unit root at the level. Accept the null hypothesis, which
Table 1. Descriptive statistics of the indian and US stock markets.
BSE Sensex S&P 500
Mean 20270.47 1756.313
Median 18046.35 1396.160
Maximum 61765.59 4536.950
Minimum 2600.120 676.5300
Std. Dev. 13322.46 824.2623
Skewness 0.731957 1.258356
Kurtosis 3.091253 3.981032
Jarque–Bera 468.2814 1588.152
Probability 0.000000∗ 0.000000∗
Note: ∗p-value at 5% level of
significance. (Source: Authors’ own
compilation.) (Data generated
through E-Views v.20.)
Table 2. Unit root test (augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) test) for
BSE sensex and S&P 500.
Augmented
Dickey–Fuller
Test Statistic BSE Sensex S&P 500
Constant 1.380589 (0.9990)∗ 2.622967 (1.0000)∗
Constant at level one −26.65607 (0.0000)∗ −23.14838 (0.0000)∗
Note: ∗p-value at 5% level of significance. (Source: Authors’ own
compilation.) (Data generated through E-Views v.20.)
-4,000
-3,000
-2,000
-1,000
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
DBSE
Figure 1. Return clustering of BSE Sensex at first difference.
(Source: E-views V.20.)
-400
-300
-200
-100
0
100
200
300
2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
DSP500
Figure 2. Return clustering of S&P 500 at first difference. (Source:
E-views V.20.)
states that there is a unit root in the series, because the p-
value is greater than 5%. Further, it indicates unit root test
results at level one or lag one in the third row of Table 2.
The test indicates a p-value of less than 5%, hence reject-
ing the null hypothesis. Thus, it indicates the stationarity
of data in both time series, which is desirable for econo-
metric models. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the diagrammatic
representation of data stationarity.
The absence of a unit root and the presence of stationary
points suggest that the data follows a proper trend. It will
116 Sachit Paliwal and Shipra Saxena
Table 3. Granger causality test result of S&P 500 and BSE sensex.
Null Hypothesis F-Statistics p-values
BSE Sensex does not involve the
Granger causality of S&P 500
4.98237 0.0005∗
S&P 500 does not involve the
Granger causality of BSE Sensex
4.07188 0.0027∗
Note: ∗p-value at 5% level of significance. (Source: Authors’
own compilation.) (Data generated through E-Views v.20.)
facilitate future forecasting of the spillover and contagion
effects through volatility measures.
Granger Causality Test
A statistical technique called the Ganger causality test is
used to establish the short-term causal link between two
time series. If a time series can predict another time series,
it can be determined statistically using this hypothesis test.
If the probability value falls below the level of significance
(5% in this case), the null hypothesis of Granger causation
is rejected.
The Granger causality test is based on VAR and a rea-
sonable number of lags. The reasonable number of lags
determines the maximum time period for which one time
series can be forecast for another time series. Furthermore,
the number of lags was selected based on the AIC criterion.
When four lags are applied in Table 3, the first null
hypothesis that the BSE Sensex does not involve the
Granger causality of the S&P 500 is rejected at a 5% level
of significance (refer to Equation 2). Thus, it suggests
unidirectional causality running from the BSE Sensex to
the S&P 500. At the 5% level of significance, the second
null hypothesis, that S&P 500 does not involve the Granger
causality of BSE Sensex, was also rejected (refer to Equa-
tion 3).
Thence, it suggests unidirectional causality running
from the S&P 500 to the BSE Sensex. Moreover, it is
suggested that the BSE Sensex be used to predict future
values of the S&P 500 stationary time series and vice
versa. Therefore, it can be said that BSE Sensex volatility
causes S&P 500 volatility, and S&P 500 volatility causes BSE
Sensex volatility:
σ2
t(BSE Sensex) = λ0 + λ1σ2
t−1 (BSE Sensex) + λ2σ2
t−1 (S&P500)
(2)
σ2
t (S&P500) = λ0 + λ1σ2
t−1 (S&P500) + λ2σ2
t−1 (BSE Sensex)
(3)
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF
THE STUDY
The current study examined the short-run causal relation-
ship and interdependency between two stationary time
series data sets of stock markets (India and the United
States) using the Granger causality test. The test results
revealed that both markets are bidirectional in the short
term. It suggests one time series is useful to predict future
values of another time series.
In other words, the findings indicate that the Indian
stock market causes the US stock market, and the US stock
market causes the Indian stock market, demonstrating
the interdependence of the two markets. Thus, this study
explained that fund flow in one stock market (India or the
United States) affects fund flow in another market. In the
current study, independent regressors were used to quan-
tify the dynamic cause and effect of BSE Sensex volatility
spillover into NYSE volatility and S&P 500 volatility into
BSE Sensex volatility.
The Granger causality test, which implies that both
market indices are interdependent on one another, was
employed to test this causal relationship in the short run.
The test shows that S&P 500 volatility results from both
BSE Sensex volatility and S&P 500 volatility. According
to the study, financial system liberalization encourages
money to move from market to market.
Thus, it reinforces the stock markets’ interdependency.
This study, however, emphasizes the nature of market link-
ages and emphasizes the importance of short-run causal
relationships among markets for investment decision-
making. These results are supported by the existing lit-
erature and provide the same line of thought about the
interdependency between the stock markets.
This study gives the investor crucial information to
reduce risk while diversifying the portfolio for invest-
ment purposes. This study’s findings make it simpler for
investors to create investment plans and fund diversifica-
tion strategies to reduce portfolio risks. In fact, because of
the ability to decrease portfolio risk through fund diver-
sification across stock markets, stock market integration
has become increasingly important for fund managers and
investors in the age of globalization.
Furthermore, the bidirectional causal relationship sug-
gests that investors will not benefit much from portfolio
diversification in the short run when considering these
markets due to higher risk on both linked and dynamically
linked markets. The investors should hedge their portfolio
by investing in another market.
Due to time and data constraints, the study only limited
itself to the sample data period of 2001–2021 and applied
the Granger causality model to measure short-run interde-
pendency among the two stock market indices. The future
research can also include various sample data to measure
the interdependency of the stock markets, such as the types
of global crises represented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to this, the researchers can also measure
the cross-country interdependency in the long run with
more recent models of econometrics such as VAR-BEKK-
GARCH, GVAR, etc. The future studies can also include
more emerging and frontier markets along with devel-
oped markets like the United States, Japan, and Europe
Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices 117
to measure various types of market interdependency such
as contagion effect, volatility spillover, correlation, and co-
integration.
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Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices: A Granger Causality Approach

  • 1. ISSN (online) 2583-4541 BOHR International Journal of Finance and Market Research 2022, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 112–117 https://doi.org/10.54646/bijfmr.018 www.bohrpub.com Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices: A Granger Causality Approach Sachit Paliwal∗ and Shipra Saxena Department of Management, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India ∗Corresponding author: paliwaal@gmail.com Abstract. The Granger causality model is used in the current study to analyze the short-run cause–effect relationship between two stock market indices between 2001 and 2021 using time series data of the daily closing prices of the BSE Sensex and S&P 500 indices listed in the Indian and US stock markets, respectively. The Granger causality model and the augmented Dickey–Fuller test for data stationarity were used in the study to examine the short-term causal link between two market indices during the time period. The outcomes demonstrated the connection between the Indian and US stock markets. The findings imply that both markets have a dynamic, bidirectional relationship. This study provides the investor’s essential inputs for investment decision-making and portfolio diversification. In the current era of globalization, the study is crucial because investors and fund managers now place a high priority on stock market integration. Through fund diversification across equity markets, this study subsequently makes it easier to reduce portfolio risk by providing useful insights on diversification strategies across the stock markets. Keywords: BSE Sensex, S&P 500, Granger causality test, augmented Dickey–Fuller test. INTRODUCTION Stock markets observe the growth of autocorrelations in stock return patterns as a result of the capital markets’ openness to international investors [12]. These autocorre- lations in stock returns demonstrate a type of dynamic association of time series data and explain how investors make investment decisions. According to the phenomenon of autocorrelation, one stock market has a significant influ- ence on another (Rakesh and Dhankar 2009). These influences of one market on another are known as “conditional volatility” due to the autoregressive condi- tional hetero-skedasticity (ARCH) effect in the data (peri- ods of high volatility are followed by periods of high volatility, and periods of low volatility are followed by periods of low volatility in stock return data) and the presence of the ARCH effect in the volatility cluster of stock return data. More specifically, it contends that significant volatility in stock returns frequently follows more minor changes and vice versa. It highlights the fact that past trends of investment in foreign and domestic markets have had an impact on current investment decisions. These changes in the form of clusters in stock return data represent conditional volatility. Further to this, the conditional volatility concept suggests that the present volatility of stock return is determined by the past volatility of stock return (also known as an independent variable to measure the volatility of stock return for the present time period). With the aid of the Granger causality model, the current study seeks to identify the dynamic interaction between the two markets (i.e., the stock markets of the United States and India). The Indian stock market has many US investors, which implies that the US market volatility has a great impact on the Indian stock market. Several empirical analyses also suggest a dynamic association between the volatility of these two stock markets (the United States and India). Furthermore, the United States was one of India’s most important commercial partners. Because of the United States and India’s positive eco- nomic and commercial relations, India’s exports to the United States represented 17.4% of total exports during the 1995–1996 period and climbed to 22.8 percentage points during the 1999–2000 period. For the same time frame, 112
  • 2. Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices 113 imports made up 10.5% and 7.2% of all imports, respec- tively. Due to India’s concentration on other emerging nations following the 2002–2003 era, the percentage of total exports decreased. The current study’s objective is to test the idea that capi- tal transfers between markets affect trade volume, creating a highly integrated stock market. The Granger causality test was used in the study to examine the causal connec- tion between the two time series (the United States and India) and determine whether they are complementary for forecasting. Many academics often employ the ARCH approach to determine the conditional volatility of stock markets. The residuals in ARCH modeling are calculated using the mean equation, transferred to the variance equation to further assess the residual normality distribution, and finally the best fit model is determined using the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and/or SIC criterion. The residuals are also known as error terms, and in ARCH modeling conditional variance becomes a function of his- torical variance. Furthermore, this method allows histori- cal variance to change over time [10]. According to [10], unanticipated variations in stock returns over time have a substantial impact on the stock market’s volatility. Bollerslev [5] expanded the ARCH pro- cess by enabling the conditional variance to be a function of both the lagged value of the conditional variance and the past error term. Its fundamental tenet is that investors’ present decision-making is significantly influenced by the residuals (past error term), which also influences their historical volatility. Since Engle initially described them in 1982 and [6] subsequently extended them, these models have been frequently used to explain and model the time series data of stock markets. The paper consists of five sections: (a) the section titled, “Introduction” introduces the concept with explanation of aim of the study; (b) the section titled, “Literature Review” elaborates the extant literature related to the study; (c) the section titled, “Data and Research Method- ology” follows the “Literature Review” section; (d) the section titled, “Empirical Findings” follows the “Data and Research Methodology” section; and (e) the section titled, “Conclusions and Implications of the Study” concludes the paper. LITERATURE REVIEW The current study credits Grubel’s [14] investigation into the advantages of world diversity as the source of its inspiration. Due to the continuing liberalization of emerg- ing markets, investors are diversifying their portfolios to reduce risk. Whenever there is a negative correlation between stock returns in different markets, international diversification should help the investor reduce risk. The information from one market can be used to fore- cast the movement of another market if the stock returns of different countries are positively correlated. Scholars have tried to quantify the connectedness between the stock markets. This relationship is termed “dynamic inter- dependence,” and it consists of four measures of mar- ket dynamic linkage, i.e., “cause and effect” (causality), “spillover effect” (both market volatility and return), ”co- integration,” and “connectedness” [20]. Existing literature investigates and explores all four measures to identify market dynamic linkages in various sample periods and market conditions using various tech- niques and models. Co-integration, correlations, the uni- variate Granger causality model, the GARCH (p, q) model, and the ARMA-GARCH model were previously used to estimate dynamic linkages between stock market return and volatility spillover. For example, [26] found through cross-spectral analysis that there was a weak relationship between the Indian market and other global markets. A two-stage GARCH model was used in several types of research to examine the dynamic interaction between stock markets utilizing daytime and overnight returns (Rakesh and Dhankar 2010). In order to estimate the overnight returns of the other market, the authors first used the unanticipated shocks from one market’s daytime returns as a stand-in for volatility surprises. Studies by [21] show a strong link between stock market gains and periods of high volatility. However, these studies found that this connection changes over time. Moreover, based on the identified connectedness among the financial markets globally, recent researchers con- ducted a study on the dynamic linkages between macroe- conomic variables and stock markets across the globe. The studies use advanced econometric techniques such as VAR-GARCH-BEKK, GVAR, GARCH-BEKK, BEKK- MGARCH, and others to identify dynamic linkages such as spillover effect, contagion, shock transmission, and so on [2, 16, 20]. But there is no superior model due to varied market conditions [17]. For example, [19] investigated trade interdependency among four South Asian countries. The author applied the Granger causality model to test short-run causality among the markets. The result highlights a short-run, bidirectional causal relationship among stock markets in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Similarly, a study was conducted to determine the degree of interconnectedness between the US equity mar- ket and seven European markets. The study employs a nonlinear causality test to assess the dynamic relationship between market returns and volatility in both crisis and boom markets. The result highlights the existence of mar- ket connectedness across countries, which sheds light on portfolio diversification strategies for investors [20]. A few studies are also being conducted on identify- ing the linkages between the crypto-currency market and the stock market [2, 16, 30]. The studies suggested a link between stock market returns and cryptocurrency. The study also provides evidence of volatility spillover
  • 3. 114 Sachit Paliwal and Shipra Saxena (unidirectional and/or bidirectional) between stock mar- kets and the crypto-currency market. However, these stud- ies found that this connection changes over time. Furthermore, extant research that used the Granger causality model suggests that the US stock market sig- nificantly influences the integration of other stock mar- kets [24]. According to several studies that looked at group stock markets, there is a significant interconnected- ness between the stock markets (cf. Jong and Roon 2005; [2]; [16]; Peng et al., 2020). The results of Forbes and Rigobon’s [13] study, which found both long- and short- term connectedness among the stock markets, support the market’s interconnectedness. In the same line of thought, [7] discovered compelling evidence that monetary factors impact global interdependencies among stock markets. Moreover, [23] back up the widely held belief that there is a significant short-run and long-run association between emerging Asian markets and the well-established OECD markets. As a result, a few studies concluded that the Indian and US stock markets were not interdependent. For example, [1] investigated the dynamic relationship of stock markets between the United States and India using the Johansen co-integration test and found no evidence of interdepen- dency between the United States and Indian stock markets. Despite the existence of the NAFTA pact, [11] discovered that there is no market integration among the North Amer- ican countries. According to some empirical studies, there are dynamic relationships between financial indicators and stock mar- kets [7, 24]. Furthermore, the US stock market consistently outperforms other developed economies in both the short and long run. The integration of the Australian stock mar- ket with the US and Japanese markets before and during the Asian financial crisis was also studied by [28]. The study discovered evidence of long-run correlation among three markets prior to the Asian crisis, but corre- lation among stock markets weakens after the crisis. The study also demonstrates lesser interdependency between the stock markets of the United States and Australia than the Japanese and Austrian stock markets, which are nonetheless somewhat interdependent. The author used the VAR-BEKK-GARCH method to demonstrate the inter- dependency between major East Asian markets and the bitcoin markets proposed by [30]. The outcome suggests that the Japanese and Hong Kong stock markets are moderately dependent on each other. Moreover, the stock markets have significant spillover risks to other markets. Wong et al. (2004) examined the market integration of India with the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The co-integration model and the Granger causality model were used to calculate short- and long-run correlation. The authors found a long-run correlation between all three markets (the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan) and the Indian market, and that it has evolved to reflect their traits. However, in the short run, the UK stock exchange influences the Indian stock exchange and vice versa; the Indian stock exchange has no influence on the US or Japanese stock exchanges and vice versa. Yochanan [29] estimated dynamic linkages among the BRIC countries using vector autoregression (VAR) models and found strong linkages among the countries. The study concludes that all four member markets become more significant as globalization progresses more quickly. Additionally, using the Impulse Response model, the impact of market volatility in the United States, Japan, and India on the Bangladesh stock market was examined. The study discovered that the Bangladesh stock market was significantly impacted by US volatility. However, the volatility of the Japanese and Indian stock markets has little effect on the Bangladesh stock market. Based on the extant literature, it can be concluded that most of the researchers indicate a high level of market integration among countries, which is increasing. Even though few studies contest this occurrence and find no evidence of a dynamic link between the markets [1, 11, 18]. DATA AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The current study estimates how closely related the US and Indian stock markets are to one another by calculating their conditional volatilities. The daily prices of the NYSE-listed S&P 500 index and the Bombay Stock Exchange’s (BSE) Sensex index are included in the sample data. Data were collected between January 2001 and December 2021. The majority of the 500 large-cap stocks that make up the S&P 500 index are American. It is contained in the value-weighted components of the important S&P 1500 and S&P Global 1200 stock market indexes. The NYSE and NASDAQ, the two biggest US stock exchanges, are where all the index’s component equities are traded. It includes roughly 75% of the market and 75% of the market capitalization for US stocks. Another value- weighted index made up of 30 large-cap companies with active trading markets is the BSE Sensex. The study contains a thorough analysis of the enhanced Dickey–Fuller test for determining data stationarity using E-Views v.20 and the Jarque–Bera test for determining conditional volatility using the Granger causality model. Initially, natural logarithmic differences are used in the estimation of stock market returns. The index’s price in time period t should be represented by Pt, and its price in time period t − 1 should be represented by Pt−1. As a result, the rate of return Rit investors will experience over the course of time will be Rt = [Loge(Pt) − Loge(Pt−1)] ∗ 100 (1)
  • 4. Interdependency Between Indian and US Market Indices 115 EMPIRICAL FINDINGS Preliminary Results Table 1 shows the summary statistics for the return price for both time series of data, i.e., the US stock market (S&P 500) and the Indian stock market (BSE Sensex). In addition, the mean value determines the average return prices of both indices. Table 1 further indicates the positive average return prices of both the S&P 500 and the BSE Sensex, indi- cating an increase over the period. The skewness values suggest that both indices are positively skewed. The positive skewness suggests that most data values shift toward the higher side. As a result, both indices have a better likelihood of producing profitable returns. The S&P 500 return has a larger tail than the conventional normal distribution, according to high values of kurtosis, whereas the BSE Sensex return has a low value of kurtosis. To ascertain whether the data are distributed normally, the Jarque–Bera test is also used. The test’s null hypothesis was that the data had a normally distributed distribution. The analysis demonstrates that the data are not normally distributed because the p-value is less than 0.05, which disproves the null hypothesis. This demonstrates that the US and Indian stock markets’ returns are not allocated in a consistent manner. Unit Root Test There is a need to analyze whether the data is stationary or not to conduct econometric modeling. It is the basic assumption for conducting econometric modeling on time series data. Table 2 shows the group unit root test at the first level. The BSE Sensex and S&P 500 indices’ returning prices were evaluated for data stationarity using the augmented Dickey–Fuller test. According to Table 2, both series have a unit root at the level. Accept the null hypothesis, which Table 1. Descriptive statistics of the indian and US stock markets. BSE Sensex S&P 500 Mean 20270.47 1756.313 Median 18046.35 1396.160 Maximum 61765.59 4536.950 Minimum 2600.120 676.5300 Std. Dev. 13322.46 824.2623 Skewness 0.731957 1.258356 Kurtosis 3.091253 3.981032 Jarque–Bera 468.2814 1588.152 Probability 0.000000∗ 0.000000∗ Note: ∗p-value at 5% level of significance. (Source: Authors’ own compilation.) (Data generated through E-Views v.20.) Table 2. Unit root test (augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) test) for BSE sensex and S&P 500. Augmented Dickey–Fuller Test Statistic BSE Sensex S&P 500 Constant 1.380589 (0.9990)∗ 2.622967 (1.0000)∗ Constant at level one −26.65607 (0.0000)∗ −23.14838 (0.0000)∗ Note: ∗p-value at 5% level of significance. (Source: Authors’ own compilation.) (Data generated through E-Views v.20.) -4,000 -3,000 -2,000 -1,000 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 DBSE Figure 1. Return clustering of BSE Sensex at first difference. (Source: E-views V.20.) -400 -300 -200 -100 0 100 200 300 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 DSP500 Figure 2. Return clustering of S&P 500 at first difference. (Source: E-views V.20.) states that there is a unit root in the series, because the p- value is greater than 5%. Further, it indicates unit root test results at level one or lag one in the third row of Table 2. The test indicates a p-value of less than 5%, hence reject- ing the null hypothesis. Thus, it indicates the stationarity of data in both time series, which is desirable for econo- metric models. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the diagrammatic representation of data stationarity. The absence of a unit root and the presence of stationary points suggest that the data follows a proper trend. It will
  • 5. 116 Sachit Paliwal and Shipra Saxena Table 3. Granger causality test result of S&P 500 and BSE sensex. Null Hypothesis F-Statistics p-values BSE Sensex does not involve the Granger causality of S&P 500 4.98237 0.0005∗ S&P 500 does not involve the Granger causality of BSE Sensex 4.07188 0.0027∗ Note: ∗p-value at 5% level of significance. (Source: Authors’ own compilation.) (Data generated through E-Views v.20.) facilitate future forecasting of the spillover and contagion effects through volatility measures. Granger Causality Test A statistical technique called the Ganger causality test is used to establish the short-term causal link between two time series. If a time series can predict another time series, it can be determined statistically using this hypothesis test. If the probability value falls below the level of significance (5% in this case), the null hypothesis of Granger causation is rejected. The Granger causality test is based on VAR and a rea- sonable number of lags. The reasonable number of lags determines the maximum time period for which one time series can be forecast for another time series. Furthermore, the number of lags was selected based on the AIC criterion. When four lags are applied in Table 3, the first null hypothesis that the BSE Sensex does not involve the Granger causality of the S&P 500 is rejected at a 5% level of significance (refer to Equation 2). Thus, it suggests unidirectional causality running from the BSE Sensex to the S&P 500. At the 5% level of significance, the second null hypothesis, that S&P 500 does not involve the Granger causality of BSE Sensex, was also rejected (refer to Equa- tion 3). Thence, it suggests unidirectional causality running from the S&P 500 to the BSE Sensex. Moreover, it is suggested that the BSE Sensex be used to predict future values of the S&P 500 stationary time series and vice versa. Therefore, it can be said that BSE Sensex volatility causes S&P 500 volatility, and S&P 500 volatility causes BSE Sensex volatility: σ2 t(BSE Sensex) = λ0 + λ1σ2 t−1 (BSE Sensex) + λ2σ2 t−1 (S&P500) (2) σ2 t (S&P500) = λ0 + λ1σ2 t−1 (S&P500) + λ2σ2 t−1 (BSE Sensex) (3) CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY The current study examined the short-run causal relation- ship and interdependency between two stationary time series data sets of stock markets (India and the United States) using the Granger causality test. The test results revealed that both markets are bidirectional in the short term. It suggests one time series is useful to predict future values of another time series. In other words, the findings indicate that the Indian stock market causes the US stock market, and the US stock market causes the Indian stock market, demonstrating the interdependence of the two markets. Thus, this study explained that fund flow in one stock market (India or the United States) affects fund flow in another market. In the current study, independent regressors were used to quan- tify the dynamic cause and effect of BSE Sensex volatility spillover into NYSE volatility and S&P 500 volatility into BSE Sensex volatility. The Granger causality test, which implies that both market indices are interdependent on one another, was employed to test this causal relationship in the short run. The test shows that S&P 500 volatility results from both BSE Sensex volatility and S&P 500 volatility. According to the study, financial system liberalization encourages money to move from market to market. Thus, it reinforces the stock markets’ interdependency. This study, however, emphasizes the nature of market link- ages and emphasizes the importance of short-run causal relationships among markets for investment decision- making. These results are supported by the existing lit- erature and provide the same line of thought about the interdependency between the stock markets. This study gives the investor crucial information to reduce risk while diversifying the portfolio for invest- ment purposes. This study’s findings make it simpler for investors to create investment plans and fund diversifica- tion strategies to reduce portfolio risks. In fact, because of the ability to decrease portfolio risk through fund diver- sification across stock markets, stock market integration has become increasingly important for fund managers and investors in the age of globalization. Furthermore, the bidirectional causal relationship sug- gests that investors will not benefit much from portfolio diversification in the short run when considering these markets due to higher risk on both linked and dynamically linked markets. The investors should hedge their portfolio by investing in another market. Due to time and data constraints, the study only limited itself to the sample data period of 2001–2021 and applied the Granger causality model to measure short-run interde- pendency among the two stock market indices. The future research can also include various sample data to measure the interdependency of the stock markets, such as the types of global crises represented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to this, the researchers can also measure the cross-country interdependency in the long run with more recent models of econometrics such as VAR-BEKK- GARCH, GVAR, etc. The future studies can also include more emerging and frontier markets along with devel- oped markets like the United States, Japan, and Europe
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