Are common stocks a hedge against inflation?

Luintel, Kul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7430-3926 and Paudyal, Krishna 2006. Are common stocks a hedge against inflation? Journal of Financial Research 29 (1) , pp. 1-19. 10.1111/j.1475-6803.2006.00163.x

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Abstract

We test whether U.K. common stocks hedge against inflation using a framework of the tax-augmented Fisher hypothesis. Aggregate and disaggregate (seven industry groups) monthly data covering 48 years are used. All pairs of stock and retail price indexes are cointegrated. Tests in most cases reveal significant shifts in the cointegrating vectors, and accounting for these shifts improves the precision of the estimates. The point estimates of goods price elasticity are significantly above unity in all but two cases. These findings, though in sharp contrast to most existing findings that report price elasticity of below unity, appear theoretically more plausible because nominal stock returns must exceed the inflation rate to insulate tax-paying investors.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0270-2592
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/42894

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