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Economic Factors and Stock Markets: Empirical Evidence from the UK and the US

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  • Cheng, Arnold C S

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This paper explores the relationships between security returns and economic factors in an international setting, namely, the UK and the US. Canonical correlation analysis is used to investigate a set of economic indicators as systematic influences on security returns. The results show that the canonical correlation analysis successfully links the stock market factors and the economic forces. Such a method appears to represent an innovation for empirical research on the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT). As a result, the APT factors are identified which are based on the intuition of the APT and, hence, we have a better APT model with which we could successfully relate the factors most closely to identifiable sources of economic risk. On balance, the evidence favours the APT and there is available evidence of inter-market linkage between the UK and the US. Copyright @ 1996 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Cheng, Arnold C S, 1996. "Economic Factors and Stock Markets: Empirical Evidence from the UK and the US," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 1(4), pages 287-302, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ijf:ijfiec:v:1:y:1996:i:4:p:287-302
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    1. S. Saiful Bahri & Lawrence Leger, 2001. "The stability of risk factors in the UK stock market," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 411-422.
    2. Lawrence Leger & Vitor Leone, 2008. "Changes in the risk structure of stock returns: Consumer Confidence and the dotcom bubble," Review of Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 17(3), pages 228-244, August.

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