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Influence of Macroeconomic Variables on the Brazilian Stock Market

  • Pedro Raffy Vartanian and
  • Rodrigo Lucio Gomes

This research seeks to evaluate the effects of the preceding cyclical indicators and macroeconomic variables on the performance of the Brazilian stock market from January 2011 to December 2022. The objective is to identify how these factors influence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,870 Views
23 Pages

The stability of financial markets is influenced by the strength and transparency of companies listed on stock exchanges. This paper explores how financial, non-financial, and macroeconomic factors influence delisting likelihood among companies liste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,162 Views
14 Pages

Investor Sentiment, Portfolio Returns, and Macroeconomic Variables

  • Azilawati Banchit,
  • Sazali Abidin,
  • Sophyafadeth Lim and
  • Fareiny Morni

Investor sentiment is an important aspect of behavioural finance, which provides explanation of anomalies to the asset’s intrinsic values. Sentiments can easily affect individual investors. Historically, Australia is regarded as rich in resourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,328 Views
21 Pages

6 September 2025

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of macroeconomic variables on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) returns under different market conditions. The growing prominence of ETFs in emerging markets has over the years drawn much relevance in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,418 Views
33 Pages

18 May 2023

Credit-risk models that are designed for general application across sectors may not be suitable for the construction industry, which has unique characteristics and financial risks that require specialised modelling approaches. Moreover, advanced bank...

  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
17 Pages

On Variable-Order Fractional Discrete Macroeconomic Model: Stability, Chaos, and Complexity

  • Ali Aloui,
  • Louiza Diabi,
  • Omar Kahouli,
  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Lilia El Amraoui and
  • Mohamed Ayari

Macroeconomic mathematical models are practical instruments structured to carry out theoretical analyses of macroeconomic developments. In this manuscript, the Caputo-like fractional operator of variable order is used to introduce and investigate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,716 Views
15 Pages

In this research paper, the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on stock returns in the United States of America is examined. To measure this macroeconomic uncertainty, a survey of Consensus Economics with data ranging from 1989 until 2019 was employ...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,943 Views
25 Pages

Smart Beta Allocation and Macroeconomic Variables: The Impact of COVID-19

  • Matteo Foglia,
  • Maria Cristina Recchioni and
  • Gloria Polinesi

4 February 2021

Smart beta strategies across economic regimes seek to address inefficiencies created by market-based indices, thereby enhancing portfolio returns above traditional benchmarks. Our goal is to develop a strategy for re-hedging smart beta portfolios tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,732 Views
21 Pages

9 December 2021

A trade war between the United States and China resulted in an increase in trade tariffs on imported goods entering each of these countries. Southeast Asian countries that have trade relations with the two countries, especially in terms of non-oil an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
16,424 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of the U.S. Macroeconomic Variables on the CBOE VIX Index

  • Akhilesh Prasad,
  • Priti Bakhshi and
  • Arumugam Seetharaman

The purpose of this study is to find the influence of various macroeconomic factors on the volatility index, as macroeconomic factors affect stock market volatility, resulting in an impact on the VIX Index, representing the risk in the stock market....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,272 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Education and Macroeconomic Variables on Corruption Index in G20 Member Countries

  • Nugroho S. B. Maria,
  • Indah Susilowati,
  • Salman Fathoni and
  • Izza Mafruhah

16 February 2021

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of several macroeconomic variables consisting of gross domestic products (GDP) per capita, economic openness, government effectiveness index, inflation, and the level of education on the corruption...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,986 Views
21 Pages

This paper focuses on three “safe haven” assets (gold, oil, and the Swiss Franc) and examines the impact of recent financial crises and some macroeconomic variables on their return co-movements during the last two decades. All financial c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,117 Views
15 Pages

This article examines the impact of the macroenvironment on enterprises in euro-area countries over the period 2006–2020. Our study builds on important works and theories in the field of business, including the work of Kar and Özsahin. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,946 Views
18 Pages

Import Tariff Reduction and Fiscal Sustainability: A Macro-Econometric Modelling for Ethiopia

  • Gollagari Ramakrishna,
  • Berhanu Asefa Gizaw,
  • Ch. Paramaiah,
  • Robinson Joseph and
  • Sania Khan

8 February 2023

The main objective of this study is to examine the dynamic impact of import tariff reduction on major macroeconomic variables and its long-run implications for the fiscal sustainability of Ethiopia. In addition, it estimates the increase in the avera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,822 Views
16 Pages

A Hybrid Vector Autoregressive Model for Accurate Macroeconomic Forecasting: An Application to the U.S. Economy

  • Faridoon Khan,
  • Hasnain Iftikhar,
  • Imran Khan,
  • Paulo Canas Rodrigues,
  • Abdulmajeed Atiah Alharbi and
  • Jeza Allohibi

22 May 2025

Forecasting macroeconomic variables is essential to macroeconomics, financial economics, and monetary policy analysis. Due to the high dimensionality of the macroeconomic dataset, it is challenging to forecast efficiently and accurately. Thus, this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,792 Views
28 Pages

The aim of this paper was to examine the relationship between changes in the US and China macroeconomic conditions and the excess returns of nine Asian-Pacific public real estate markets (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Aus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,207 Views
25 Pages

This paper focuses on four major aggregate stock price indexes (SP 500, Stock Europe 600, Nikkei 225, Shanghai Composite) and two “safe-haven” assets (Gold, Swiss Franc), and explores their return co-movements during the last two decades. Significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,531 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2023

Economic policies aimed at managing economic variables in the short and long term have always been of special importance. These policies seek to reduce economic fluctuations in the short term and increase sustainable economic growth in the long term....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,993 Views
26 Pages

5 June 2025

Existing stock volatility forecasting models predominantly rely on same-frequency market data while neglecting mixed-frequency integration and face particular challenges in incorporating low-frequency macroeconomic variables that exhibit temporal mis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,915 Views
17 Pages

This paper explores the characteristics and inter-relationships of tax systems in the OECD countries over the period 2014–2020, i.e., from a relatively consolidated economic period until the end of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,417 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2015

The present study, according to our knowledge, is the first attempt to establish a financial distress prediction model for a unique set of enterprises, which are the enterprises listed on the specialized Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market. It also ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,731 Views
21 Pages

Macroeconomic Determinants of the Interest Rate Term Structure: A Svensson Model Analysis

  • Cristiane Benetti,
  • José Monteiro Varanda Neto and
  • Rogério Mori

This study develops a model to predict and explain short-term fluctuations in the Brazilian local currency interest rate term structure. The model relies on the potential relationship between these movements and key macroeconomic factors. The methodo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,553 Views
14 Pages

Cluster Analysis and Macroeconomic Indicators and Their Effects on the Evolution of the Use of Clean Energies

  • Karime Chahuán-Jiménez,
  • Rolando Rubilar-Torrealba,
  • Hanns de la Fuente-Mella and
  • Valeska V. Geldres-Weiss

14 November 2023

The aim of this research is to relate clean energies, CO2 emissions, and economic variables. Relationships can be generated that characterize countries that manage to relate the use of clean energy with GDP, economic openness, and economic growth. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,107 Views
28 Pages

31 March 2022

Using an unbalanced panel of 922 non-financial companies publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange during January 1995 and September 2014, this article tests the predictions of Pecking Order Theory (POT), Trade-off Theory (TOT) and Market Timing T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,609 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Macroeconomic Effects of Renewable Energy in Tajikistan: An Empirical Analysis

  • Mirzosaid Sultonov,
  • Behruz Hasanov,
  • Pirumsho Valizoda and
  • Fumiaki Inagaki

Tajikistan holds the eighth position globally in terms of hydropower potential, estimated at 527 terawatt-hours (TWh), with a technically exploitable capacity of 317 TWh. Only 4–6 percent of this immense potential is currently utilized. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
170 Citations
16,732 Views
22 Pages

17 October 2018

The accelerated development of information and communication technology (ICT) over the past two decades has encouraged an increasing number of researchers to examine and measure the impact of this technology on economic growth. Our study aims to iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
14,797 Views
14 Pages

The current study examines macro-economic and bank specific determinants of non-performing loans (NPLs) for commercial banks from 2008–2018. The Pakistani banking sector has observed a significant increase in NPLs. In addition, the current study is u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,403 Views
14 Pages

The Conductive and Predictive Effect of Oil Price Fluctuations on China’s Industry Development Based on Mixed-Frequency Data

  • Jian Chai,
  • Puju Cao,
  • Xiaoyang Zhou,
  • Kin Keung Lai,
  • Xiaofeng Chen and
  • Siping (Sue) Su

28 May 2018

Presently, the total supply of crude oil is sufficient, but short-term supply and demand imbalances and regional imbalances still exist. The effect of crude oil supply security and price impact cannot be ignored. As the world’s largest oil impo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,116 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2024

This study investigates the macroeconomic and financial repercussions of a real estate bubble burst in South Korea through the application of Bayesian estimation and impulse response function analysis. By utilizing this approach tailored to the speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,603 Views
11 Pages

We investigated the impact of a sustainable development technology on the macroeconomic variables in a small economy utilizing a case study with a stochastically improving energy saving technology and a stochastically increasing energy price. The res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,551 Views
22 Pages

15 November 2020

This study extends previous empirical efficiency research by focusing on a tourism sector which has limited evidence to date: the holiday and other short-stay accommodation industry (tourist apartments and hostels). The sample comprises 12,864 firm-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,874 Views
10 Pages

India is among the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. To continue its growth, energy is and will continue to be one of its most important considerations. With a population of over one billion, India is the third largest consumer of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,231 Views
24 Pages

Supreme Audit Institutions and Sustainability of Public Finance. Links and Evidence along the Economic Cycles

  • Ionel Bostan,
  • Mihaela Brindusa Tudose,
  • Raluca Irina Clipa,
  • Ionela Corina Chersan and
  • Flavian Clipa

30 August 2021

Against the backdrop of concerns for diminishing the vulnerabilities of the economies of the Member States, the EU has adopted measures to strengthen budgetary discipline and control of the public deficit. In this context, the responsibility of gover...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
16,481 Views
23 Pages

20 May 2022

The current crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, causing significant damage to every aspect of the global banking system, and Bangladesh is no exception. For that reason, its performance and profitability have been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,220 Views
23 Pages

Green Bond Yield Determinants in Indonesia: The Moderating Role of Bond Ratings

  • Mutia Wahyuningsih,
  • Wiwik Utami,
  • Augustina Kurniasih and
  • Endri Endri

This study investigates the relationship between bond-specific factors, macroeconomic variables, and green bond (GB) yields issued in the Indonesian bond market. The study sample includes 468 GBs issued by 30 issuers from both corporate and governmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,432 Views
15 Pages

The primary objective of this article is to present an adaptive parameter VAR-KF technique (APVAR-KF) to forecast stock market performance and macroeconomic factors. The method exploits a vector autoregressive model as a system identification techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,654 Views
18 Pages

This study analyses the variables that influence investment in a sample of small, labour-intensive companies in a sector that is highly dependent on external demand and the world economy. The aim is to test the three traditional theories of investmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,606 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2025

Retrofitting existing buildings is a cornerstone of Europe’s strategy for a sustainable built environment. Therefore, accurate short-term forecasts to evaluate policy impacts and inform future strategies are needed. This study investigates the...

  • Short Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,810 Views
7 Pages

11 October 2013

The focus of this paper is to examine potential impacts of fiscal and monetary policies on stock market performance in Poland. Applying the GARCH model and based on a sample during 1999.Q2 to 2012.Q4, this paper finds that Poland’s stock market index...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
749 Views
22 Pages

10 May 2025

Alkali-activated slag recycled cementitious material (ASRCM) has emerged as a sustainable construction material alternative due to its potential for industrial byproduct valorization and reduced carbon footprint. To study the effect of recycled mater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,190 Views
24 Pages

Challenges and Vulnerabilities on Public Finance Sustainability. A Romanian Case Study

  • Ionel Bostan,
  • Carmen Toderașcu and
  • Anca Florentina Gavriluţă (Vatamanu)

Given the contradiction between the current demands for sustainability and the way that the financial system works, this paper explored in a retrospective and a prospective view, Romanian Public Finance Sustainability, highlighting the major challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,978 Views
21 Pages

Banks’ Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Key Factors in GCC Countries

  • Hashed Mabkhot and
  • Hamid Abdulkhaleq Hasan Al-Wesabi

30 November 2022

Purpose: This study examines the impact of macroeconomic factors on GCC banks’ stability. As GCC countries still rely on oil export revenues to cover government expenses and perform an undiversified economy, hence, increased awareness of the fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,425 Views
25 Pages

Pathway to a Sustainable Energy Economy: Determinants of Electricity Infrastructure in Nigeria

  • Mosab I. Tabash,
  • Ezekiel Oseni,
  • Adel Ahmed,
  • Yasmeen Elsantil,
  • Linda Nalini Daniel and
  • Adedoyin Isola Lawal

2 April 2024

This study examines the link between energy (using electricity generation as a proxy) and sustainable economic growth alongside the mediating role of salient socio-political factors, such as education, life expectancy, government effectiveness, and g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,712 Views
11 Pages

17 October 2025

The macro-economic growth rate of Peru is analyzed for sensitivity to climatic conditions. Year-on-year fluctuations in the inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) per capita over the period 1970–2024 are subjected to correlation and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,815 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Macroeconomic News on Chinese Futures

  • Ruobing Liu,
  • Jianhui Yang and
  • Chuan-Yang Ruan

Inspired by the GARCH-MIDAS model, we revisit the relationship between Chinese futures and macroeconomic factors. We introduce the level of the macroeconomic variables into the GARCH-MIDAS model in order to test the impact of the macroeconomic level...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,516 Views
25 Pages

Determinants of a firm’s cash holdings have been a popular topic of research in finance, especially after the rapid surge in cash holdings for U.S. firms since the 1980s. The wide array of research has focused primarily on firm-specific factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,484 Views
24 Pages

13 November 2025

The primary goal of the present study was to assess the efficacy of the inflation-targeting framework (ITF) within the Egyptian economy. This was achieved by scrutinizing the monetary policy framework (MPF) from 2005 to 2022 and measuring its effecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,708 Views
22 Pages

18 July 2024

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between macroeconomic variables and the financial liquidity of companies. In this context, two main research questions were formulated. Firstly, which macroeconomic variables impact the finan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,662 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2024

The objective of this study was to examine the potential moderating effects of the relationship between macroeconomic variables and the financial liquidity of enterprises. Given the significance of liquidity for companies and the profound impact of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,014 Views
14 Pages

17 April 2022

Many macro-level variables have been used in forecasting crude oil price volatility. This article aims to identify which variables have the greatest impact and give more accurate predictions. The GARCH-MIDAS model with variable selection enables us t...

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