Interrelations among stock prices of South Africa and the United States and the rand/dollar exchange rate

Abstract

This paper seeks to examine the dynamic short-term causal relations and the long-term equilibrium relations between the two major financial assets, stock prices of the US and South Africa and the rand/US$ exchange rate. The study uses a mixed bag of time series approaches such as cointegration, Granger causality, impulse response functions and forecasting error variance decompositions. The study identifies a long-run relationship among the rand/US$ exchange rate and the stock prices of South Africa and the United States. It was also observes that there is a causal relationship from the stocks in the United States to the rand/US$ exchange rate. In the short run however, the interactions among the variables are quite modest. The result of the study has implications for investors, policy makers and researchers.

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Keywords

Exchange rate, Cointegration, Stock price, Impulse response, Granger causality, Variance decomposition

Citation

Ocran, M. K. (2007). Interrelations among stock prices of South Africa and the United States and the rand/dollar exchange rate . A paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the African Econometric Society Cape Sun Hotel, Cape Town.