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Stock Prices And Exchange Rates In Australia: Are Commodity Prices The Missing Link?

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  • Nicolaas Groenewold

    (UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia)

  • James E H Paterson

    (UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia)

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The relationship between stock prices and exchange rates is an important topic of long standing. But there are still significant gaps in our knowledge of this area, not least, the ambiguity about the sign of the effect of a change in one of these variables on the other. While there are many possible reasons for this ambiguity, one which we explore in the Australian context in this paper is the omission of commodity prices. We show that a bivariate relationship which omits commodity prices performs badly but that once commodity prices are added to the relationship, our results are plausible and robust. We also throw light on the commodity-currency issue and show that the link from the exchange rate to commodity prices is stronger and more consistent than that in the opposite direction.

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  • Nicolaas Groenewold & James E H Paterson, 2011. "Stock Prices And Exchange Rates In Australia: Are Commodity Prices The Missing Link?," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 11-07, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwa:wpaper:11-07
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    1. Afees A. Salisu & Tirimisiyu F. Oloko, 2015. "Modelling spillovers between stock market and FX market: evidence for Nigeria," Journal of African Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1-2), pages 84-108, January.
    2. Afees A. Salisu & Kazeem Isah & Nnenna Ogbonnaya‐Orji, 2022. "A firm level analysis of asymmetric response of U.S. stock returns to exchange rate movements," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(1), pages 1220-1239, January.

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