Co-Integration and Causal Relationship Among Crude Oil Prices, Exchange Rate and Stock Market Performance: An Evidence From India

This paper has made an attempt to evaluate the combined impact of crude oil prices and exchange rate on the performance of Indian stock market. As the impact of dollar nominated oil prices on stock prices may not be quite relevant for Indian context. Therefore, in this study WTI Crude oil prices per Dollars along with the USD/Rupee exchange rate would be more meaningful and relevant to understand the impact of oil prices on stock market by using monthly data from 2003 to 2016 for S&P CNX Nifty Index, WTI Crude oil prices per Barrel (Dollars) and Dollar/Rupee Exchange rate. All the series were found to be stationery at First difference. The Granger causality tests revealed that there exists a Bi directional causality between stock prices and exchange rates in the short run i.e. stock prices lead exchange rates in the short run, but result of Johansen cointegration suggested that there is no long run relationship between these two financial variables. The results of the Johansen cointegration test suggest absence of any long term relationship between WTI crude oil price, USD/Rupee exchange rate and stock prices in India. The result of forecast error variances suggested that USD/Rupee exchange rate is influenced by Stock market performance. The forecast error variances of USD/Rupee exchange rate is significantly explained by the value of Nifty. Results also indicate that the values of oil price and exchange rate are comparatively less exogenous than the Indian stock market. Particularly, the contribution of Stock market shocks to the USD/Rupee exchange rate is greater than that of WTI Crude oil price shocks in all the periods.