Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns

The volatility of interest rate and the risks from exposure to such volatility has made it a quite important subject of study in this area. Most existing studies examining the phenomenon of interest rate sensitivity have focused on its influence on the stock returns of banks and financial institutio...

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Main Author: Chen, Jun
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20385/
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description The volatility of interest rate and the risks from exposure to such volatility has made it a quite important subject of study in this area. Most existing studies examining the phenomenon of interest rate sensitivity have focused on its influence on the stock returns of banks and financial institutions. In general, it is certainly true that due to the nature of their activities. Nevertheless, such interest rate volatility also affects firms which are non-financial in nature. One of the main contributions of this dissertation is that we have attempted to analyze the interest rate exposure of both financial as well as non-financial firms. Moreover, it will use a three factor regression model, whereby we regress the returns on any chosen S&P500 index on returns of the S&P 500 composite index, changes in the domestic and global interest rates. In addition, we have also explored the possibility that interest rate movements and stock returns could be related in a complex manner or nonlinear functions of each other, therefore we explore the existence of nonlinear exposure profiles. There is an other nature of the dissertation is that we have made an effort on analysis and comparing the results obtained for the three different model specifications which are linear regression model , cubic specification regression model and square specification regression model, then it will give a recommendation on which model is better and suitable.
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spelling nottingham-203852018-01-04T18:19:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20385/ Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns Chen, Jun The volatility of interest rate and the risks from exposure to such volatility has made it a quite important subject of study in this area. Most existing studies examining the phenomenon of interest rate sensitivity have focused on its influence on the stock returns of banks and financial institutions. In general, it is certainly true that due to the nature of their activities. Nevertheless, such interest rate volatility also affects firms which are non-financial in nature. One of the main contributions of this dissertation is that we have attempted to analyze the interest rate exposure of both financial as well as non-financial firms. Moreover, it will use a three factor regression model, whereby we regress the returns on any chosen S&P500 index on returns of the S&P 500 composite index, changes in the domestic and global interest rates. In addition, we have also explored the possibility that interest rate movements and stock returns could be related in a complex manner or nonlinear functions of each other, therefore we explore the existence of nonlinear exposure profiles. There is an other nature of the dissertation is that we have made an effort on analysis and comparing the results obtained for the three different model specifications which are linear regression model , cubic specification regression model and square specification regression model, then it will give a recommendation on which model is better and suitable. 2006 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20385/1/06MAlixjc15.pdf Chen, Jun (2006) Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Interest Rate Movements Common Stock Returns
spellingShingle Interest Rate Movements
Common Stock Returns
Chen, Jun
Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns
title Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns
title_full Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns
title_fullStr Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns
title_short Relationship between Interest Rate Movements and Common Stock Returns
title_sort relationship between interest rate movements and common stock returns
topic Interest Rate Movements
Common Stock Returns
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20385/