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Has the structural break slowed down growth rates of stock markets?
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Paresh Narayan, S Narayan, Sagarika MishraSagarika MishraIn this paper, we use the common structural break test suggested by Bai et al. (1998) to test for a common structural break in the stock prices of the US, the UK, and Japan. On the basis of the structural break, we divide each country's stock price series into sub-samples and investigate whether or not the structural break had slowed down the growth of stock markets. Our main findings are that when stock markets are modelled in a trivariate sense the common structural break turns out to be 1990:02, with the confidence interval including several episodes, such as the asset price bubble when housing prices and stock prices in Japan reached a peak in 1988/1989, the early 1990s recession in the UK, the business cycle peak of July 1990, the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the March 1991 business cycle trough. Annual average growth rates suggest that the structural break has slowed down the growth rate of the US, the UK and Japanese stock markets.
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Economic modellingVolume
30Pagination
595 - 601Publisher
Elsevier BVLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0264-9993eISSN
1873-6122Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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