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    The impact of domestic gold price on stock price
  indices-An empirical study of Indian stock exchanges
                                  Amalendu Bhunia1 and Somnath Mukhuti2
               1
                Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India
                      2
                       Research Scholar, Department. of Commerce, CMJ University Meghalaya

                                                    Accepted 29 April, 2013

    The present research paper examines the impact of domestic gold price on stock price indices in India
    for the period for the period from 2nd January, 1991 to 10th August, 2012 using appropriate statistics,
    unit root test and Granger causality test. The domestic gold price in India is eternally escalating in
    consequence of its intense domestic demand on account of protection, liquidity along with spreader
    portfolio. It give the impression of being at the remarkable data brings to the plane that when the stock
    market crumples or when the dollar worsens, gold prolongs to be a safe haven investment because
    gold prices increase in such situations. The study is based on secondary data obtained from World
    Gold Council database and BSE and NSE database. Unit root test indicates that time series are not
    stationary at levels and the selected time series are stationary at 1st difference. Granger causality test
    illustrate that no causality exists between nifty and gold price, gold price and sensex and nifty and
    sensex and bidirectional causality exists between gold price and nifty, sensex and gold price and
    sensex and nifty.

    Keywords: Gold Price, Sensex, Nifty, India, Correlation, Multiple regression, ADF and PP unit root test,
    Granger causality test

INTRODUCTION

The study of the capital market of a country in terms of a        explores the impact of domestic gold price on stock price
wide range of macro-economic and financial variables              indices in India. In other words, the plan of this paper is to
has been the area under discussion of many researches             observe the causal relationships between the gold price
during the last two decades. Empirical studies make               and stock market in India.
known that when financial deregulation comes to pass,
the stock markets of a country become more sensitive to
both domestic and peripheral factors and one of these             Problem statement
factors is the price of gold. Historical practices give an
idea about that in countries in period of stock market            The global economic disorder is expected to goad
slump, the gold for perpetuity trends higher (Neda                improbability in gold prices that has already made it a
Bashiri, 2011). The domestic gold price in India is               dodgy asset for investors. Investment demand will return
continually ever-increasing on account of its heavy               no more than when there are a few transparencies. Gold
domestic demand as a consequence of security, liquidity           prices have been on the mount for the past several
and diversified portfolio. A look at the historic data brings     months and the hot-blooded state of affairs in global
to the surface that when the stock market collapses or            markets had helped the precious metal to gain
when the dollar deteriorates, gold continues to be a safe         handsomely. Conversely, the coming days will see huge
haven investment because gold prices rise in such                 funds moving from gold to sensex and nifty. The
circumstances (Gaur and Bansal, 2010). This paper                 domestic gold prices have crowned in India for the first
                                                                  time, breaks all time record. In view of that most stockists
                                                                  are looking to smash their share of the precious metal, in
                                                                  consequence pushing the prices skywards and no
*Corresponding author Email: bhunia.amalendu@gmail.com
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immediate reinforcement seems to be in sight for the gold        H1: There is a significant relationship between gold prices
buyer. Gold prices usually rise when outlooks on the             and Indian stock price indices.
economy and the financial markets are bearish or there is
uncertainty over future trends. Gold is a precious, highly
liquid, financial instrument and an important asset class        Hypothesis 2
that possesses the characteristics of both commodity and
currency, but its tangibility makes it relatively different      H0: The selected variables are not non-stationary
from paper assets such as stocks (Steven W. Sumner et            variables (there is unit root);
al, 2012). Many researchers have been done the causal            H1: The selected variables are non-stationary variables
relationships among stock price index and gold price in          (there is unit root).
developed and developing countries. Empirical results
give an idea about that gold price can deeply concern the
stock market (Mahmood Yahyazadehfar and Ahmad                    Hypothesis 3
Babaie, 2012, taken from Bhunia, A, 2013).
                                                                 H0: There is no causal relationship between the selected
                                                                 variables;
The objective of this study                                      H1: There is a significant causal relationship between the
                                                                 selected variables.
The plan of the paper was to establish, investigate and
assess the impact of domestic gold price on stock price
indices of BSE (SENSEX) and NSE (NIFTY). In this way,            Review of Literatures
this paper would attempt to attain the only objective of:
Assess the causal relationship between domestic gold             There are diverse studies, technical papers and articles
price & sensex and gold price & nifty.                           covenanting in aspects that influence stock market prices
                                                                 at the global level such as:
                                                                 Rabi N. Mishra and G. Jagan Mohan, 2012, in their study
Importance of the study                                          entitled “Gold Prices and Financial Stability in India”
                                                                 proved that domestic and international gold prices are
Stock market is distinguished as an extremely                    closely interlinked. The paper also concludes that
momentous factor of the financial sector of any economy.         implications of correction in gold prices on the Indian
Besides, it plays an imperative role in the mobilization of      financial markets are likely to be muted.
capital in India.                                                According to Mahmood Yahyazadehfar and Ahmad
  The importance of this paper curtails from the critical        Babaie (2012), the relationship between nominal interest
position of the Indian financial market for the following        rate and gold price with stock price are negative. Also,
grounds:                                                         the results of Impulse-Response Functions shocks show
  (i) Indian financial market plays an important role in         that stock price reaction to the shocks is very fast.
collecting money and encouraging investments,                    Thai-Ha Le and Youngho Chang (2011) made a study on
accordingly this paper was devised to search the impact          “Dynamic Relationships between the Price of Oil, Gold
of gold price in India on stock market prices in BSE and         and Financial Variables in Japan: A Bounds Testing
NSE.                                                             Approach” and they confirmed that the price of gold and
  (ii) The importance of the paper gives a belief to             stock, among others, can help form expectations of
domestic as well as foreign investors.                           higher inflation over time. In the short run, only gold price
  (iii) The results of this paper will provide investors helps   impacts the interest rate in Japan. Overall the findings of
to compose their individual proper investment decisions.         this study could benefit both the Japanese monetary
                                                                 authority and investors who hold the Japanese yen in
                                                                 their portfolios.
Hypotheses of the Study                                          Yen-Hsien Lee, Ya-Ling Huang & Hao-Jang Yang (2012)
                                                                 examined the asymmetric long-run relationship between
This paper aspires to study the change in daily gold price       crude oil and gold futures. This study employs the
and its impact on stock price indices based on the               momentum threshold error-correction model with
following hypotheses:                                            generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
                                                                 to investigate asymmetric cointegration and causal
                                                                 relationships between West Texas Intermediate Crude
Hypothesis 1                                                     Oil and gold prices in the futures market. From the study
                                                                 it is clear that an asymmetric long-run adjustment exists
H0: There is no relationship between gold prices and             between gold and oil. Furthermore, the causality
Indian stock price indices;
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relationship shows that West Texas Intermediate Crude         Perron (PP-1988) test methods have been used in the
Oil plays a dominant role.                                    study. The series is not stationary if the calculated value
Graham Smith (2001) empirically investigated the              is bigger than the absolute critical value, then null
relationship between gold prices and stock price indices      hypothesis is rejected and series is decided to be
on US market using Unit Root Test, Johansen’s Co              stationary [Claire G. Gilmore et al, (2009)].
Integration Test, Vector auto regression and VECM. He            H0: Series is stationary
confirmed that The short-run correlation between returns         H1: Series is non-stationary
on gold and returns on US stock price indices is small           If both sets of data are found I (1) (non-stationary), and
and negative and for some series and time periods             if the regression produces a I (0) error term, the equation
insignificantly different from zero. All of the gold prices   is said to be co-integrated. On the other, if there are two
and US stock price indices are I(1). Over the period          variables, xt and yt, which are both non-stationary in
examined, gold prices and US stock price indices are not      levels but stationary in first differences, then xt and yt
cointegrated. Granger causality tests find evidence of        would become integrated of order one, I(1), and their
unidirectional causality from US stock returns to returns     linear combination should have the form:
on the gold price set in the London morning fixing and the       zt = xt - ayt
closing price.                                                   However, if there is a I (0) such that zt is also integrated
                                                              of order zero, I (0), the linear combination of xt and yt
                                                              is said to be stationary and the two variables are
MATERIALS AND METHODS                                         also to be co-integrated (Engle & Granger, 1987 and
                                                              Claire G. Gilmore, Brian Lucey Ginette M. McManus,
                                                              2005). If two variables are co-integrated, there will be
Sources of data                                               an underlying long-run relationship between them.
                                                                 The first step in our analysis is to test each series for
The study is based on secondary data obtained from            determining the presence of unit roots. This can be done
various appropriate data sources including BSE and NSE        by means of the Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) test, an
database, World gold council database etc. Besides, the       extension of the Dickey and Fuller (1981) method. The
facts, figures and findings advanced in similar earlier       ADF test uses a regression of the first differences of the
studies and the government publications are also used to      series against the series lagged once, and lagged
supplement the secondary data.                                difference terms, with optional constant and time trend
                                                              terms:
Research design                                                  ∆yt = a0 + a1t + γyt-1 + Σbiyt-1 + et
                                                              (2)
We have measured daily data encompassing the closing             In the equation ∆ is the first-difference operator, a0 is an
indexes of both Bombay Stock Exchange (SENSEX) and            intercept, a1t is a linear time trend, et is an error term, and i
National Stock Exchange (NIFTY) and the closing               is the number of lagged first-differenced terms such that
domestic gold price index using the sample period             et is the white noise. The test for a unit root has the
extents from January 2, 1991 to August 10, 2012;              null hypothesis that signifies γ = 0. If the coefficient
however, there are 5199 observations for Sensex & Nifty       is significantly different from zero, the hypothesis that yt
and 5639 for gold price. Eviews 7.0 package program           contains a unit root is considered as rejected. If the test
have been utilized for coordinating the data and carrying     on the level series fails to reject, the ADF
out of econometric analyses.                                  procedure is then applied to the first-differences of the
                                                              series. Rejection leads to the conclusion that the series is
Tools used                                                    integrated of order one, I (1).
                                                                 A limitation of the Dickey-Fuller test is its
In the course of analysis in the present study, descriptive   assumption that the errors are statistically independent
statistics, correlation statistics, multiple regression       and have constant variances. In 1988, Phillips and Perron
                                                                    14
statistics, ADF and PP unit root test and Granger             (PP) generalized the ADF test:
causality test have been used. The uses of all these tools       ∆yt = b0 + b1(t - T/2) + b1yt-1Σ ∆yt-1 +µt
at different places have been made in the light of                                (3)
requirement of analysis.                                         Where, among the variables in the equations ∆Yt=Yt-Y
                                                              (t-1); T is the coefficient of total number of observations, t is
Model specification                                           the trend variable, stochastic error terms and the
                                                              disturbance term µt is such that E(µt) = 0, but there is no
Unit root test                                                requirement that the disturbance term is serially
                                                              uncorrelated or homogeneous. The equation is
A time series is stationary or not or include unit root for   estimated by OLS and the t-statistic of the b1 coefficient
which Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF-1979) and Phillips-        is corrected for serial correlation in µt using the Newey-
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             Table 1. Descriptive Statistics

                                                GOLD_PRICE             NIFTY                   SENSEX
            Mean                                8.806313               7.441530                8.648325
            Median                              8.492613               7.171926                8.365752
            Maximum                             10.37824               8.750279                9.952514
            Minimum                             7.768380               5.724304                6.862873
            Std. Dev.                           0.646449               0.728326                0.735241
            Skewness                            0.929154               0.333418                0.330504
            Kurtosis                            2.733134               1.988496                1.984920
            Jarque-Bera                         828.1164               317.9648                317.8578
            Probability                         0.000000               0.000000                0.000000
            Observations                        5639                   5199                    5199

              1 ,6 00
                                                                                           Series: GOLD_PRICE
              1 ,4 00                                                                      Sample 1 5639
                                                                                           Observations 5639
              1 ,2 00
                                                                                           Mean           8.806313
              1 ,0 00                                                                      Median         8.492613
                                                                                           Maximum        10.37824
                8 00                                                                       Minimum        7.768380
                                                                                           Std. Dev.      0.646459
                6 00                                                                       Skewness       0.929154
                                                                                           Kurtosis       2.733134
                4 00
                                                                                           Jarque-Bera    828.1164
                2 00
                                                                                           Probability    0.000000
                   0
                             8.0         8 .5        9 .0       9.5         1 0.0

                800
                                                                                          Series: NIFTY
                700                                                                       Sample 1 5639
                                                                                          Observations 5199
                600
                                                                                          Mean           7.441530
                500                                                                       Median         7.171926
                                                                                          Maximum        8.750279
                400
                                                                                          Minimum        5.724304
                                                                                          Std. Dev.      0.728326
                300
                                                                                          Skewness       0.333418
                200
                                                                                          Kurtosis       1.988496

                100                                                                       Jarque-Bera    317.9648
                                                                                          Probability    0.000000
                   0
                        5.8 6.0 6.2 6.4 6.6 6.8 7.0 7.2 7.4 7.6 7.8 8.0 8.2 8.4 8.6 8.8

West (1987) procedure for adjusting the standard errors.              between the two variables, null hypothesis is rejected if
                                                                      alpha is more than the probability value (0.05).

Pairwise Granger causality Tests                                      Empirical Results and Analysis

We test for the deficiency of Granger causality by
estimating the following VAR model (Olushina Olawale                  Descriptive Statistics Result
Awe, 2012):
Yt = a0 + a1Yt-1+…+ apYt-p+ b1Xt-1+…+ bpXt-p+Ut                       Descriptive statistics contain the portrait of mean,
                        (4)                                           median, standard deviation; kurtosis, skewness and J-B
Xt = c0 + c1Xt-1+…+ cpXt-p+ d1Yt-1+…+ dpYt-p+Vt                       statistics with probability for the daily stock price (sensex
                        (5)                                           and nifty) indices of two stock exchanges and daily gold
Testing H0:b1=b2=…=bp=0 against H1: Not H0 is a test                  price are exposed in Table 1. It is viewed that mean and
that Xt does not Granger-cause Yt. Similarly, testing H0:             standard deviation of the particular series have highest
d1= d2=…= dp=0 against H1: Not H0 is a test that Yt does              mean. Positive skewness and kurtosis designates that all
not Granger cause Xt. In case of Granger causality                    the selected series are less peaked than normal
                                                                      distribution. The Jarque-Bera statistic with probability
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validates that none of the series are normally distributed.   substantiates that there is an existence of serial
Graphical representations of descriptive statistics are       correlation or multi-collinearity between the independent
given below:                                                  variables. At the same time, Durbin-watson statistics
                                                              authenticates that the residuals are independent.

Correlation Statistics Result
                                                              Unit Root Test Results
Correlation statistics in table-2 point out that sensex and
nifty are positively correlated with gold prices in the       However, Granger causal test is indispensable where
period under study. Correlation test result is incredibly     there is any underlying impact of gold price on stock price
sturdy however it does not talk about the grounds and         indices of BSE and NSE. Granger causal test is
shock. In order to make out an unequivocal delineation of     achievable if the series are stationary. In order to
the shock, it is obligatory to execute multiple regression    stationarity analysis, unit root tests of Augmented Dickey-
test between the selected variables.                          Fuller (ADF) and the Phillips-Perron (PP) tests are
                                                              conducted with the levels and first differences of each
Multiple Regession Test Results                               series on the condition that the null hypothesis is non-
                                                              stationary, subsequently rejection of the unit root
Table-3 gives an idea about multiple regression test          hypothesis prop up stationarity.
results. Multiple regression test has been assessed with        Table-4 illustrates the results of unit root test. It
non-stationary data and residuals, at that moment the         divulges that time series are not stationary at levels.
regression result turns into forged. Since VIF value          Nevertheless, table illustrates that the gold price and BSE
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              Table 2. Correlation Statistics

                                             GOLD_PRICE                    NIFTY                       SENSEX
            GOLD_PRICE                       1.000000
            NIFTY                            0.932312                      1.000000
            SENSEX                           0.928865                      0.992889                    1.000000

                Table 3. Multiple Regression Test

            Dependent Variable: GOLD_PRICE

            Sample (adjusted): 1 5199                                                          Method: Least Squares
            Variable                    Coefficient          Std. Error      t-Statistic           Prob.          VIF

            NIFTY                       0.506820             0.030034        16.87511              0.0000         17.851
            SENSEX                      0.159020             0.029751        5.344999              0.0000         17.851
            C                           3.540772             0.044353        79.83175              0.0000

            R-squared                   0.869920                                Mean dependent var                0.869920
            Adjusted R-squared          0.869870                                S.D. dependent var                0.869870
            S.E. of regression          0.187743                                Akaike info criterion             0.187743
            Sum squared resid           183.1451                                Schwarz criterion                 183.1451
            Log likelihood              1320.717                                Hannan-Quinn criter.              1320.717
            F-statistic                 17374.35                                Durbin-Watson stat                17374.35
            Prob(F-statistic)           0.000000                                 R                                0.876287

             *Included observations: 5199 after adjustments

             Table 4. Unit Root Test Result

            ADF
                                 at level                                          at 1st difference
            Gold price           0.784469                                          -77.16061
            Nifty                -1.6699151                                        -50.62846
            Sensex               -1.8443263                                        -65.98076
            Critical values
            1%                   -3.431425                                         -3.431330
            5%                   -2.861900                                         -2.861858
            10%                  -2.567004                                         -2.566982
            PP
                                 at level                                          at 1st difference
            Gold price           0.830414                                          -77.14896
            Nifty                -1.702241                                         -65.42885
            Sensex               -1.810382                                         -65.95544

            Graphical representations of unit root test are given below:

and NSE stock price indices are stationary at 1st                     variance to be heterogeneously distributed and less
difference [1(1)]. Augmented Dickey Fuller unit root                  dependent. It proves that the selected series are
analysis test discloses that errors have constant variance            stationary at 1st difference [1(1)].
and are statistically independent. At the same time                   Therefore, Granger causal test can be applied on these
Phillip-Perron unit root test is used to ensure the                   variables, as supported in (Hina Shahzadi and M.N.
stationarity of the data series. This test tolerates the error        Chohan, 2012) and Kaliyamoorthy, S and Parithi, S
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           Table-5. Pairwise Granger Causality Test Results

                                                                                                               Type         of
           Null Hypothesis                       Obs        F-Statistic         Prob.          Decision
                                                                                                               Causality
                                                                                                               No causality
           NIFTY ↑ GOLD_PRICE                    5197       0.67598             0.5087         DNR H0
                                                                                                               Bi-directional
           GOLD_PRICE ↑ NIFTY                               3.87787             0.0208         Reject H0       causality

                                                                                                               Bi-directional
           SENSEX ↑ GOLD_PRICE                   5197       4.14253             0.0159         Reject H0       causality

                                                                                                               No causality
           GOLD_PRICE ↑ SENSEX                              2.30010             0.1004         DNR H0
                                                                                                               Bi-directional
           SENSEX ↑ NIFTY                        5197       123.853             3.E-53         Reject H0       causality

                                                                                               DNR H0          No causality
           NIFTY ↑ SENSEX                                   1.61115             0.1998

          Note: Decision rule: reject H0 if P-value < 0.05, DNR = Do not reject; ↑ = does not Granger cause.

(2012).                                                                   has been prepared in the present chapter in hunt for the
                                                                          trend of causation between gold prices and stock price
                                                                          indices.
Pairwise Granger causality Tests Results                                  Table-5 exposes that no causality and bi-directional
                                                                          causality subsists between gold price and stock price
The Granger causality test (Awe, O. O, 2012 and Hakan                     indices under the study. No causality exists between (i)
Güneş, 2005) is a statistical proposition test for                        Nifty and Gold price, (ii) Gold price and Sensex and (iii)
determining whether one time series is helpful in                         Nifty and Sensex. Bidirectional causality exists between
forecasting another. The pairwise Granger causality test                  (i) Gold_Price and Nifty, (ii) Sensex and Gold Price and
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