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Causal Relationship between Macroeconomic Factors and Stock Prices in Pakistan
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Causal Relationship between Macroeconomic
Factors and Stock Prices in Pakistan
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Muhammad Ahmad Shahid, 2
Fareena Farheen Kamran
1,2
University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract: The research paper aims to investigate the significant macro-economic factors affecting the stock Prices
of KSE-100 Index. Time series Data for Stock Prices on monthly basis for the period ranging January, 2005 to
March, 2014 has been taken from KSE-100 Index. The study used time series data analysis. Sample comprises of
30 companies from KSE-100 Index for analysis. Macro-economic variables selected in the study are Inflation
(CPI), Producer Price Index (PPI), Gold price, Silver price, Exports and Imports. Augmented Dickey Fuller test
has been used to check stationarity of data, Johansen’s Cointegration test and Ganger’s causality tests has been
used to measure the causal relationship between stock prices and selected macro-economic variables. The results
suggested that stock prices are cointegrated with macro-economic variables in long term. Furthermore, macro-
economic variables Inflation, PPI, Gold price and Exports have long term causal relationship with stock prices in
Pakistan.
Keywords: Stock prices, PPI, Gold price, causal relationship, Silver price.
1. INTRODUCTION
Study of causal relationship between macroeconomic indicators and stock prices is one of the most significant topics in
the field of finance and stock market (Hasan and Javed, 2009). Stock market is considered to be an important economic
indicator for any economy. Different economic variables effects the stock returns of the firms listed at Karachi stock
exchange (Butt, Rehman, Khan and Safwan, 2010). Stock market development is conisdered to be an important factor for
the growth of the economy (Enisan and Olufisayo, 2009). In order to bring growth in economy, stock market must keep
on developing (Enisan and Olufisayo, 2009). To keep the stock market on path of development, we must identify the
significant factors affecting the stock prices in stock market.
Karachi Stock exhange which is the largest stock exchnage of Pakistan was established in 1949. KSE-100 Index is the
index of top 100 companies listed at KSE. KSE-100 Index was launched in 1991 and with the passage of time it became
of the most accepted projection of stock market performance (Ali, Rehman, Yilmaz, Khan and Afzal, 2010). Karachi
Stock exchnage has the prevelage of receiving the award for “Best performing Stock Market of the World for the year
2002” Ali et al., (2010).
This paper aims to identify the significant macroeconomic factors among the selected variables along their causal
relationship with the stock prices of selected companies listed in Karachi Stock Exchange-100 Index. The selected
macroeconomic variables in this study are overall exports of Pakistan, overall imports of Pakistan, Gold prices, Silver
Prices, Inflation rate (CPI) and PPI. The study selected a total of 30 companies from KSE-100 Index. The study uses time
series data for the stock prices of these selected companies and the selecetd macroeconomic variables for the period
January, 2005 to March, 2014 on monthly basis. Data for stock prices for the period September 2008 to December 2008
was not available on KSE webiste so due to limitation of data, these four months were not included in the data extracted
for stock prices and selecetd macroeconomic variables. Table-1 Shows the list of companies selected in this analysis
along their sector wise representation. The selecetd companies covers 21 sectors of KSE out of 32 operationl sectors.
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Table 1. List of Companies
The results of this study will help the investors and policy makers to know that which significant macroeconomic
variables have more causal relationship with the stock prices of the companies listed at KSE-100 Index. The study will
also help to identify the non significant macroeconomic variables having less causal relationship with the stock prices of
the companies listed at KSE-100 Index.This paper will help foreign investors willing to invest huge funds in stock market
of Pakistan by identifying the significant macroeconomic variables having more causal relationship with the stock prices
of companies listed in KSE-100 Index.
Rest of the paper will be following the sequence as Literature review, data & methodology and Conclusion.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Farooq, Keung and Kazmi (2005) studied the casuality linkage between Stock Market Prices and Exchange rate. Later on
Akmal (2007) investigated the relationship between Stock Returns and Inflation in Pakistan in Long run and Short run. In
the same year Mamoon (2007) studied the relationship between stock market activities and some macroeconomic
variables. Later on in same year Rizwan and Khan (2007) studied the role of some selected macroeconomic variables and
global factors on stock returns volatility. Hasan and Javed (2009) conducted an empirical research on the causal
relationship between monetary variables and equity market returns. In the same year 2009, Sohail and Hussain (2009)
studied long run and short run relationship between macroeconomic variables and stock prices in Pakistan by taking a
case of lahore stock exchange. Hasan and Nasir (2009) conducted an empirical investigation to explore relationship
between macroeconomic factors and equity prices. Mohammad, Hussain, Jalil and Ali (2009) studied impact of some
macroeconomic variables on stock prices in KSE. Next year Akbar and Baig (2010) studied the reaction of stock prices to
dividend announcements and market efficiency in Pakistan. Later on Mehr-un-Nisa and Nishat (2011) investigated on the
determinants responsible for stock prices in Pakistan.
Akmal (2007) studied the relationship between stock returns and inflation and found that stock returns hedges against
inflation in long run. Ali et al., (2010) studied causal relationship of macroeconomic indicators inflation, exchnage rate,
balance of trade and index of industrial production with stock returns and results suggested co-integration between
industrial production index and stock returns. Sohail and Hussain (2009) investigated relationship of CPI, IPI, Real
effective exchange rate and money supply with stock returns and concluded that IPI, Real effective exchange rate and
Money supply have significant effect on stock prices in Pakistan. Hasan and Javed (2009) studied the relationship of IPI,
broad money, oil prices, exchnage rate, inflation and interest rate with equity prices and the results suggested broad
money, Exchange rate and interest rate to be significant. Mehr-un-Nisa and Nishat (2011) study found GDP growth rate,
interest rate and financial depth to be significant factors effecting the stock prices in Pakistan. Mohammad et al., (2009)
found Federal exchange reserves and foreign exchange rate to be significantly effecting the stock prices in Pakistan.
Mamoon (2007) studied relationship of bank call rates, wholesale price index, trading volume, M2 and Quantum Index of
manufacturing sector with stock returns volatility and the results suggested that trading volume and stock prices have
negative relation in long run. Rizwan and Khan (2007) studied the effect of exchange rate, interest rate, industrial
production, monet supply, MSCI world index and 6-months LIBOR on stock prices volatility and concluded that MSCI
world index and 6-months LIBOR can be used to explain the stock prices volatility.
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Akmal (2007) applied ARDL, Co-integration and ECM for analysis in his research paper. Farooq et al., (2005) and
Mamoon (2007) both applied Co-integration technique for the analysis in their research papers. Granger causuality
technique was used by Hasan and Javed (2009) and Ali et al., (2010) in their research papers. Farooq et al., (2005) also
applied ganger causuality technique for analysis in his research paper. Augmented Dicky Fuller test was applied in order
to identify the stationarity in the data for generalizing the results (Ali et al., 2010). Some researhers used ARIMA
technique for data analysis (Mohammad, Hussain, Jalil and Ali, 2009). Literature review suggests that ADF, Johansens
Co-integration and Gangers Causuality tests are relevant for this research paper.
3. DATA AND METHODOLOGY
Data for stock prices and macroeconomic variables was collected on monthly basis. Data for stock prices of the 30
selected companies was taken from KSE website from January, 2005 to March, 2014 and for this closing stock price on
the first working day of every month was taken. Data for CPI, Exports, Imports and PPI were taken from Pakistan Bureau
of Statistics. Data for Gold prices and Silver prices were taken from Xignite (Market data Cloud).
Table-2 exhibits the results of descriptive statistics for the selected macroeconomic variables and stock prices. To collect
descriptive statistics of stock prices of 30 selected companies, average of their stock prices was taken. The average return
of these 30 companies during January, 2005 to March, 2014 stood at Rs.78/Share. Gold price increased from Rs.
797/gram to Rs. 2.866/gram suggesting an increase of about 259% while price of silver increased from Rs. 129/10grams
to Rs. 1,207/10grams suggesting an increase of about 835% which means prices of silver increased more rapidly. Exports
increased by almost 312% in terms of range while imports increased by almost 355% suggesting deficit. Value of PPI
increased by almost 200% suggesting rapid increase in prices of general commodities CPI increased by almost 400%
resulting in huge increase in prices while average CPI stood at 10.75%.
Table 2: Descriptive Statistics
PRICES GOLD SILVER EXPORTS IMPORTS PPI CPI
Mean 77.9 2866.4 521.3 139184.2 249908.3 135.4 10.8
Median 73.7 2680.0 436.0 132000.0 250513.0 130.0 9.8
Std Dev 30.8 1551.1 310.7 51107.7 91961.2 48.1 3.9
Skewness 0.9 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.1 1.5
Minimum 39.7 797.9 129.0 66951.0 95724.0 70.6 5.1
Maximum 165.9 5428.1 1207.0 275917.0 435995.0 212.2 25.3
Kurtosis 3.0 1.5 1.9 1.9 1.8 1.5 5.5
JarqueBera 14.8 10.4 9.7 7.3 7.0 10.4 67.5
Probability 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
In this paper, Augmented Dickey Fuller test (ADF) designed by (Dickey and Fuller, 1979) has been employed in order to
make the data stationary and to determine the order of integration for stationarity. After determining the value for
integration, Johansen’s co integration test has been used to study the prevalence of long term relationship between stock
prices and selected independent variables in the study. Co integration test has been applied by using likelihood ratio test
including trace statistics and maximum Eigen value statistics. Table-3 exhibits the results of ADF test applied on the
macro-economic independent variables while Table-3 exhibits the results of ADF test applied on stock prices of 30
selected companies.
Table 3: Unit Root Analysis of independent variables
ADF test statistics - GD
-12.32596
1% critical value -3.493129
5% critical value -2.888932
10% critical value -2.581453
Prob.* 0.0000
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ADF test statistics - SR -11.67227
1% critical value -3.493129
5% critical value -2.888932
10% critical value -2.581453
Probability 0.0000
ADF test statistics - EX -12.24327
1% critical value -3.494378
5% critical value -2.889474
10% critical value -2.581741
Prob.* 0.0000
ADF test statistics - IM -17.33620
1% critical value -3.493747
5% critical value -2.8892
10% critical value -2.581596
Prob.* 0.0000
ADF test statistics - PPI -7.187089
1% critical value -3.493747
5% critical value -2.8892
10% critical value -2.581596
Prob.* 0.0000
ADF test statistics - CPI -8.190463
1% critical value -3.493747
5% critical value -2.8892
10% critical value -2.581596
Prob.* 0.0000
*Variable is stationary at first difference.
Table-3 depicts that all the six independent variables are stationary at integration 1. These variables were non-stationary at
level in their original form. Hence, the integration order for the selected time series is I (1).
Table 4: Unit Root Analysis of Stock Prices
*Stock Prices are stationary at first difference.
Table-4 exhibits the results of ADT test conducted on the stock prices of 30 selected companies. The results suggest that
Stock prices of all selected 30 companies are stationary at first difference level. Due to the existence of stationarity at
same order, we can proceed toward Johansen’s co integration test.
After applying the ADF test, Johansen’s co integration test can be applied to test the long-run relationship between
selected stock prices and macro-economic factors. Johansen’s co integration test (Johansen, 1988) is applied on non-
Stationary time series to find the co integrating equations in the time series. Trace statistics technique has been used to test
the null hypothesis in the co integration test. Results in Table-5 fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no co
integration between macro-economic variables and stock prices. Trace test suggests that at out of 30 companies, at 0.05
level 16 companies have the presence of two co integrating equations, 12 companies have the presence of three co
integrating equations while Meezan Bank has the presence of four co integrating equations and Gul Ahmed ahs the
presence of only one co integrating equation. So, the results provide empirical evidence that in common stock prices have
long run relationship with macro economic variables.
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Table 5: Johansen Co integration test
*Trace test indicates 1 cointegrating equation(s) at the 5% level
**Trace test indicates 2 cointegrating equation(s) at the 5% level
***Trace test indicates 3 cointegrating equation(s) at the 5% level
The presence of long term co integration between stock prices and macro economic variables provides us the direction for
applying Granger-causality test in order to identify that which macro economic variables are affecting stock prices in long
run.
Table 6: Pairwise Granger Causality Tests
Null Hypothesis: Obs F-Statistic Prob.
INF does not Granger Cause ADAM 104 5.15910 0.0074
ADAM does not Granger Cause INF 0.50483 0.6052
PPI does not Granger Cause ADAM 104 3.92110 0.0230
ADAM does not Granger Cause PPI 0.19543 0.8228
GOLD does not Granger Cause ADOS 104 3.84122 0.0247
ADOS does not Granger Cause GOLD 3.76907 0.0265
EXPORT does not Granger Cause CENTURY 104 6.06823 0.0033
CENTURY does not Granger Cause EXPORT 0.09384 0.9105
EXPORT does not Granger Cause ENGRO 104 0.11568 0.8909
ENGRO does not Granger Cause EXPORT 6.71115 0.0018
EXPORT does not Granger Cause GLAXO 104 1.37594 0.2574
GLAXO does not Granger Cause EXPORT 4.45788 0.0140
EXPORT does not Granger Cause GOLDEN 104 3.90082 0.0234
GOLDEN does not Granger Cause EXPORT 1.74981 0.1791
GOLD does not Granger Cause GOLDEN 104 3.35054 0.0391
GOLDEN does not Granger Cause GOLD 0.15007 0.8608
EXPORT does not Granger Cause HUB 104 1.32514 0.2704
HUB does not Granger Cause EXPORT 3.16983 0.0463
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INF does not Granger Cause JAHANGIR 104 4.70161 0.0112
JAHANGIR does not Granger Cause INF 0.84474 0.4327
INF does not Granger Cause MCB 104 3.75851 0.0267
MCB does not Granger Cause INF 0.64799 0.5253
PPI does not Granger Cause MCB 104 4.25107 0.0169
MCB does not Granger Cause PPI 0.14905 0.8617
EXPORT does not Granger Cause NISHAT 104 0.10101 0.9040
NISHAT does not Granger Cause EXPORT 4.67777 0.0115
PPI does not Granger Cause NISHAT 104 3.82945 0.0250
NISHAT does not Granger Cause PPI 0.06311 0.9389
INF does not Granger Cause PACKAGES 104 5.07333 0.0080
PACKAGES does not Granger Cause INF 0.46396 0.6302
PPI does not Granger Cause PACKAGES 104 6.95743 0.0015
PACKAGES does not Granger Cause PPI 0.59933 0.5512
INF does not Granger Cause PAKELEKTRON 104 4.78604 0.0104
PAKELEKTRON does not Granger Cause INF 0.22018 0.8028
PPI does not Granger Cause PAKELEKTRON 104 3.67037 0.0290
PAKELEKTRON does not Granger Cause PPI 0.33980 0.7127
EXPORT does not Granger Cause SHIFA 104 4.44193 0.0142
SHIF does not Granger Cause EXPORT 0.11435 0.8921
INF does not Granger Cause SUI 104 3.85232 0.0245
SUI does not Granger Cause INF 0.15411 0.8574
GOLD does not Granger Cause THESEARL 104 3.23407 0.0436
THESEARL does not Granger Cause GOLD 0.00930 0.9907
GOLD does not Granger Cause EXPORT 104 4.28223 0.0165
EXPORT does not Granger Cause GOLD 3.08813 0.0500
PPI does not Granger Cause EXPORT 104 4.08609 0.0197
EXPORT does not Granger Cause PPI 4.95820 0.0089
SILVER does not Granger Cause GOLD 104 1.62806 0.2015
GOLD does not Granger Cause SILVER 3.35127 0.0391
SILVER does not Granger Cause IMPORT 104 2.11242 0.1264
IMPORT does not Granger Cause SILVER 4.06823 0.0200
SILVER does not Granger Cause PPI 104 0.50885 0.6028
PPI does not Granger Cause SILVER 6.25173 0.0028
The results of Granger-causality test have been conducted on stationary data at lag 2. The results in Table-6 contain only
the significant factors affecting stock prices. Rejection of first null hypothesis at 0.05 level suggests that there prevails
unidirectional Granger-causality between the macroeconomic variable and stock prices while rejection of both null
hypotheses suggests that there prevails bidirectional Ganger-causality between macroeconomic variable and stock prices.
There exists unidirectional Granger-Causality between Inflation and Stock prices of Adamjee Insurance, Jahangir
Siddiqui, MCB, Packages, Pak Elektron and Sui Northern Gas Limited. Hasan and Javed (2009) found similar result that
inflation does Granger-Cause Stock prices. PPI has unidirectional Granger-Causality with Stock prices of Adamjee
Insurance, MCB, Nishat, Packages and Pak Elektron. Hardouvelis (1987) studied affect of PPI on stock prices and found
it insignificant. In contrast, Pearce and Roley (1985) found PPI statistically significantly affecting stock prices before
1979. Gold rate has unidirectional Ganger-Causality with Stock prices of Ados Pakistan, Golden Arrow selected Funds
and the Searle Company. There prevails bidirectional Ganger-Causality between Gold rates and Stock prices of Ados
Pakistan. Hasanzadeh and Kianvand (2012) found negative short run relationship between Stock returns in Tehran Stock
market and Gold prices. Draper, Faff and Hillier (2006) found weak correlation for Stock returns with Gold prices and
Silver prices. Our results also suggest that silver prices are not Granger-causing stock prices. Exports has unidirectional
Ganger-Causality with Stock prices of Century paper, Golden Arrow selected Funds and the Searle Company.
4. CONCLUSION
This research examines the causal relationship between stock prices in KSE and macroeconomic factors which are
Inflation, Gold rates, Silver rates, Exports, Imports and PPI for the period January 2005 to March 2014 by using Co-
integration technique and Granger-Causality test. The research concluded that the stock prices of selected 30 companies
from KSE are co integrated with Inflation, Gold rates, Silver rates, Exports, Imports and PPI in long run. It means all
these macroeconomic variables are associated with stock prices in KSE in long run. The results found Inflation, Exports,
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PPI and Gold rates having Granger-Causal affect on stock prices in KSE. Other macroeconomic variables Silver rates and
Imports were found not having Ganger-Causal affect on stock prices in KSE. Identification of factors affecting stock
prices in KSE would help the individual investors to make better decision in future in order to make their investments less
risky. This would also help the brokers to study the relevant and significant macroeconomic variables affecting stock
prices before taking their decision. The results can help policy makers to focus on the identified significant factors to
boost up the stock market and attract more investors. Foreign investors could study the identified factors before making
their decision to invest in the KSE.
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