Title: A new dimension in exploring stock price movement

Authors: Umer Ilyas; Matti Ullah Butt; Muhammad Gulzar; Muhammad Umer Quddoos

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, National College of Business Administration and Economic, Lahore, Pakistan ' Department of Business Administration, National College of Business Administration and Economic, Lahore, Pakistan ' School of Commerce and Accounting, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan ' Department of Commerce, Bahauddin Zakriya University Multan, Pakistan

Abstract: This study unfolds the deficiencies of traditional index base studies and explores the macroeconomic determinants of stock price movement in Pakistan with the aid of panel ARDL model with co-integration and with the objective to provide knowledge platform applicable beyond the geographical boundaries by overcoming the deficiencies of traditional index base studies. Monthly data for the period of 2005 to 2020 were collected for exchange rate, foreign direct investment, interest rate, foreign exchange reserve and exports along with month end share price for analysis. This study captures the impact of these variables first on overall sector and then on each individual firm within same sector to analyse is there any difference in response for both. The results of the study rejected the conventional methods of adopting stock index for decision making as for most cases the overall sector response found different as compared to firms within same sector.

Keywords: stock price determinants; macro-economic variables; stock market performance; sector analysis; firm analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2023.129989

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2023 Vol.25 No.3, pp.414 - 430

Received: 07 Feb 2021
Accepted: 05 Mar 2021

Published online: 04 Apr 2023 *

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