Testing for cointegration with threshold effect between unemployment and stock prices


ARABACI Ö.

APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS, cilt.25, sa.9, ss.643-647, 2018 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1355529
  • Dergi Adı: APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.643-647
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Unemployment, the stock market, animal spirits, ANIMAL SPIRITS, GREAT RECESSION, MARKET CRASH, SUNSPOTS, CYCLES
  • Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Under the dominant role of a belief function, Farmer argues that the stock market is the Granger cause of the unemployment rate, which implies that the natural rate hypothesis is an outdated idea. This article provides some new empirical evidence supporting this view using threshold cointegration and asymmetric error correction models. The results show that these models can assess asymmetric dynamics between unemployment and the stock market. Moreover, regime switches of the momentum threshold autoregressive adjustment specification are highly consistent with recessions in the US economy during the last 60years.