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Table 1 Overview of the literature review

From: Stock prices and economic activity nexus in OECD countries: new evidence from an asymmetric panel Granger causality test in the frequency domain

References

Period

Country(s)

Variables

Method(s)

Results

Lee (1992)

1947M1–1987M12

The United States

Stock returns, industrial production growth rate, interest rate, inflation rate

Granger Causality Test

SM → EA

Choi et al. (1999)

1957–1996

G7 countries

Industrial production, stock price index

Granger Causality Test based on ECM

SM → EA except for Italy

Binswanger (2000)

1953–1995

1953–1965

1984–1995

The United States

Stock returns, production growth rate, GDP growth rate

Granger Causality Test

SM—EA for the period 1984–1995

Hassapis and Kalyvitis (2002)

ranges from 1949 to 1998

G7 countries

Stock returns, industrial production growth rate

Granger Causality Test

Mixed results

Kim and In (2003)

1959M1–2001M5

The United States

Stock price index, industrial production index

Wavelet Analysis

SM → EA at the lower frequencies

Caporale et al. (2004)

1977Q1–1998Q4

Argentina, Chile, Greece, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Portugal

Stock market development, financial development, economic growth

Granger Causality Test based on Toda-Yamamoto approach

Stock market development → EA for Chile, Greece, Malaysia, Philippines

Duca (2007)

ranges from 1957 to 2005

The United States, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom

Stock market index, GDP

Granger Causality Test

SM → EA except for Germany

Kaplan (2008)

1987Q1–2006Q4

Turkey

Stock market index, GDP

Granger Causality Test

SM → EA

Liu and Sinclair (2008)

ranges from 1967 to 2003

Greater China: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

GDP, stock price index

Granger Causality Test based on VECM

EA → SM in the long-run, SM → EA in the short-run

Panopoulou (2009)

1988M1–2005M5

12 Euro area countries

Financial variables, output growth

Non-parametric Causality Test

SM → EA approximately half the euro area countries

Tsouma (2009)

1991M1–2006M12

22 mature, 19 emerging markets

Stock price index, industrial production index, consumer price index

Granger Causality Test

SM → EA for most of the countries

Henry et al. (2010)

1946M7–2004M6

The United States

Industrial production index, stock returns

Asymmetric BEKK approach

SM → EA

Lyócsa et al. (2011)

1996Q1–2009Q4

Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia

Stock indices, economic activity

Granger Causality Test based on Toda-Yamamoto approach, Granger Causality Test

SM → EA in the Czech Republic and Poland

Croux and Reusens (2013)

1991Q1–2010Q2

G7 countries

Stock price index, GDP

Panel Granger causality test in the frequency domain

SM → EA at slowly fluctuating components

Pradhan et al. (2014)

1961–2012

26 ASEAN Regional Forum countries

Economic growth, banking sector development, stock market development, FDI, trade openness, inflation rate, government spending

Granger Causality Test based on Panel VECM

Stock market development → EA for all ARF countries in the short-run

Pradhan et al. (2015a)

1961–2012

G20 countries

Economic growth, oil prices, stock market depth, exchange rate, inflation rate, interest rate

Granger Causality Test based on Panel VECM

Market capitalization → EA, EA → Turnover ratio, Traded stocks ↔ EA in the short-run

Pradhan et al. (2015b)

1988–2012

34 OECD countries

Economic growth, insurance market development, financial development

Granger Causality Test based on Panel VECM

Financial development ↔ EA

Tiwari et al. (2015)

1993M4–2011M1

India

Share prices, industrial index of production, exogenous macroeconomic series

Frequency Domain Causality Test

SM → EA for frequencies less than 0.4

Pradhan et al. (2017)

1991–2011

17 ASEAN Regional Forum countries

Economic growth, banking sector development, stock market development, bond market development, insurance market development

Granger Causality Test based on Panel VECM

Composite index of stock market development ↔ EA in the short-run

Ciner (2018)

1950M1–2017M1

The United States

Industrial production index, stock market returns

Time-Varying Causality Test

SM—EA

Yang et al. (2018)

2003M1–2015M9

Korea Republic

Inflation, stock return, industrial production index, exchange rate, interest rate

Granger Causality Test based on SVAR

SM → EA

Thach et al. (2019)

2005M1–2017M11

Vietnam

Industrial production index, stock prices

Frequency Domain Causality Test

EA → SM at lower frequencies, SM → EA at higher frequencies

Kassouri and Altıntaş (2020)

2003M1–2018M12

Turkey

stock prices, industrial production, exchange rate, interest rate, money supply

Frequency Domain Causality Test

EA → SM at various frequencies

Wang et al. (2020)

2011–2018 (daily)

China

Daily returns

Frequency Domain Causality Test

Interconnected returns for high frequencies

  1. M denotes monthly frequency while Q denotes quarterly frequency. → shows unidirectional causality and — denotes no causality
  2. ECM, Error Correction Model; VECM, Vector Error Correction Model; SVAR, Structural Vector Autoregression; SM, Stock market variables; EA, Economic activity variables