Macroeconomic Policies Interaction &amp; the Symmetry of Financial Markets’ Responses

Nasir, Muhammad Ali; Soliman, Alaa M.; Yago, Milton; Wu, Junjie

doi:10.1515/jcbtp-2016-0003

Abstract

This concise study analyses the symmetry of financial markets’ responses to macroeconomic policy interaction in the United Kingdom. Employing the Vector Auto-regression (VAR) model on monthly data of the British financial sector and macroeconomic policies from January 1985 to August 2008, this study found that the equity and sovereign debt markets showed identical symmetry in response to macroeconomic policy interaction.

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