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The Sensitivity of Stock Prices to Money Supply Changes in India: An Empirical Analysis


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1 RBI Chair Professor, RBI Endowment Unit, Faculty of Commerce, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
2 Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat., India
     

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The relationship between monetary variable changes and stock market returns have been one of the most widespread research areas for a long time. The existing studies have found that these variables positively or negatively impact the stock market returns. Thus, the relationship between the money supply and the stock market instead remain at odds. In this context, the present study investigates the impact of money supply (M3) on the Indian stock markets from January 1992 to December 2019. The study attempts to estimate the money supply's impulse response and the Indian stock market and the direction of their causality. The findings indicate that the money supply changes have a long-term and short-term impact on the Indian stock market. It also confirms the presence of unidirectional causality from money supply to both the stock indices.

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Causality, Money Supply, Nifty, Sensex, Stock Prices
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Authors

Dinkar Nayak
RBI Chair Professor, RBI Endowment Unit, Faculty of Commerce, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
Rubina Barodawala
Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat., India

Abstract


The relationship between monetary variable changes and stock market returns have been one of the most widespread research areas for a long time. The existing studies have found that these variables positively or negatively impact the stock market returns. Thus, the relationship between the money supply and the stock market instead remain at odds. In this context, the present study investigates the impact of money supply (M3) on the Indian stock markets from January 1992 to December 2019. The study attempts to estimate the money supply's impulse response and the Indian stock market and the direction of their causality. The findings indicate that the money supply changes have a long-term and short-term impact on the Indian stock market. It also confirms the presence of unidirectional causality from money supply to both the stock indices.

Keywords


Causality, Money Supply, Nifty, Sensex, Stock Prices

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