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THE NATURE OF THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FII AND MACROECONOMIC AGGREGATES: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS Dr Gurcharan Singh, Professor, School of Management Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala. Abstract Foreign Institutional Investors are crowd - puller to magnetize the foreign investment in India. The main objective of the study is to examine the causal relationship between FII and macroeconomic aggregates namely BSE-SENSEX, Inflation rate (IR), Crude Oil Prices (CR) and Exchange rate (EXR). The study is based on the secondary data which has been taken from April 2000 to March 2013. The monthly average data has been considered for the study including 156 observations. Econometric regression analysis indicated that Indian Stock Market (SENSEX) and Exchange rate (EXR) had a significant and positive impact on FII. Furthermore, As far as Granger causality relationship is concerned, a unidirectional causality or one way causality is found from FII towards SENSEX and Exchange rate. It leads to acceptance of null hypothesis at 5% level of significance. The study further concluded that there is no relationship subsists between other indicators like inflation rate and crude oil in both econometric analyses. However, FIIs inflows by and large are determined by the performance of stock market (SENSEX) and other macroeconomic aggregates in India Keywords: FII, Macroeconomic Aggregates, Descriptive Statistics, Augmented Dickey Fuller Test, Econometric Regression Analysis and Granger Causality Test. INTRODUCTION Stock market have become a key driver of modern market based economy and is one of the major sources of raising resources for Indian corporate, thereby enabling financial development and macroeconomic growth. In fact, Indian stock market is one of the emerging markets in the world. Thus, an organised and well regulated stock market provides liquidity to shares, ensures safety and a fair dealing in selling and buying of securities and helps in monitoring of firms in the process of collection and use of funds by them (Agarwal, 2000). With rapid changes in the economy because of liberal economic policies and fast pace changes due to globalisation, Indian market has become a focus point for foreign investors. Organisations tend to target for large volume of trade in this era of globalisation. Trade flows are indeed one of the most visible aspects of globalization. FII refers to the investment made by resident of one country in the financial capital and asset of another country (Shrivastav, 2013). Now a day, a significant portion of Indian corporate sector’s securities is held by Foreign Institutional Investors, such as pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies. These investors are often viewed as sophisticated investors as these institutional investors are better informed and better equipped to process information than individual investors (Han and Wang, 2004). Consequently, policymakers have become increasingly concerned about the factors determining international investment, the performance of foreign capital investments, and the impact of foreign investment on local turnover and on the volatility of stock prices (Tesar and Werner, 1995). FII inflows on domestic stock market are important from government as well as investor point of view. The opening up of the market for FII, increased speculation in the market makes the market more volatile and more vulnerable to foreign shocks (Li, 2002). The immediate impact of market opening to FIIs is the surge in trading volume and capital inflows to domestic stock markets, result of which the boom in stock prices. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were permitted to invest in all the listed securities traded in Indian capital market for the first time in September, 1992. As per the RBI, Report on Currency & Finance (2003-04), since 1991 there has been continuous move towards the integration of the Indian economy with world economy. Since then the regulations with regard to FIIs investment has become more liberal. International capital inflows have both positive as well as negative impact on the health of the recipient economy. On the positive side, these capital inflows raise the level of economic development by augmenting the domestic investment and widen financial intermediation. But these capital inflows also pose several threats to the domestic economic and financial system of the recipient economy like inflation, appreciation in exchange rate, overheating of the economy and possibility of sudden withdrawal. In the present paper, an effort has been made to estimate the determinants of foreign portfolio investment in India. Available empirical evidence suggests that FIIs inflows by and large are determined by the performance of stock markets and macroeconomic aggregates of the host country. Thus, FIIs investment is pulled toward an economy with sound macroeconomic aggregates as follows: Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) includes an investor or investment fund that is from or registered in a country outside of the one in which it is currently investing. The term is used most commonly in India to refer to outside companies investing in the financial markets of India. FII is allowed to enter into our country only through stock exchanges either in the form of equity or debt. Thus, it makes an impact on the rise or fall of SENSEX, since FII is allowed to be purchased or sold daily. It has been observed that SENSEX increases when there are positive inflows of FIIs & decreases when there are negative FII inflows. BSE-SENSEX has been selected for this study as the representative of Indian stock market and used to obtain a measure of market price movement of Indian securities since this index is comprehensive. Inflation is defined as a rise in the average level of price for all goods and services. It can also be defined as a permanent increase in the aggregate price level which implies a diminishing of the purchasing power and increase in the cost of living. Inflation considered one of the macroeconomic phenomenon that still polarised attention of both developing and development countries (Mousa et al., 2012). Inflation rate is computed as percentage rate of change in Wholesale Price Index over a given period. Inflation Rate= WPI (t)-WPI (t-1)/WPI (t-1). Crude oil is an indispensable input for production and therefore, the price of oil is included as a proxy for real macroeconomic activity. India is largely an importer of crude oil and consequently, oil price takes part an imperative role in Indian economy. Therefore, for oil importing countries like India, an increase in oil price will lead to an increase in production costs and hence to decreased future cash flow, leading to a negative impact on the stock market. Exchange rate: The next macroeconomic variable used in this study has been the exchange rate/dollar price, which represents the bilateral nominal rate of exchange of the Indian Rupee (Rs.) against one unit of a foreign currency. US Dollar ($) has been taken to be the foreign currency against which the Indian Rupee exchange rate is considered. This is because the US Dollar has remained to be the most dominating foreign currency used for trading and investment throughout the period of this study. Generally, a depreciating currency causes a decline in stock prices because of expectations of inflation. On an average, exportoriented companies are adversely affectedly a stronger domestic currency while importoriented firms benefit from it. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Classens (1993) analysed the return and diversification benefits for an investor in an industrial country of investing in emerging markets and barriers which prevent a free flow of funds. Study found that equity portfolio flows can be affected by efficiency of domestic stock market as well as market segmentation created by barriers. Investors’ perception and attitudes may thus matter as much as formal barriers. Batra (2003) made an attempt to build up an understanding of investment decisions, trading strategies and behaviour of the FIIs in Indian equity market. The author scrutinized the daily & monthly data to investigate the trading behaviour of FIIs & their impact on the stability of stock market. It is found that the positive feedback investors and trend chasers of FIIs on the basis of daily data analysis but no evidence of positive feedback trading while analysed data on monthly basis. Singh (2004) analysed the policy towards FIIs investment and highlighted the nature and some determinants of FIIs flows. The study examined the extent of effect of significant macroeconomic variables; inflation and exchange rate on the flows of Foreign Institutional Investment in India. It has been found that the flow of investment by FIIs towards India was seasonal and the more investment was done in the few months of calendar year. Pal (2006) examined the impact of foreign portfolio investment on India’s economy and industry. As FPI essentially interacts with the real economy via the stock market, the effect of foreign portfolio on the country’s economic development examined. The result of this study suggests that the entry of foreign portfolio investors will boost a country’s stock market and consequently the economy, does not seem to be working in India. Rai and Bhanumurthy (2006) analyzed the determinants of foreign institutional investment in India using monthly data. The study revealed the positive association of FIIs investment with return on BSE-SENSEX, inflation in US (home country) and negative association with inflation in India (host country), return on S&P 500 index, ex-ante risk on BSE and ex-ante risk on S&P 500 index. However, the ex-post risk neither in US nor in India affected FII inflow to India. Kaur and Dhillon (2010) aimed at exploring the determinants of FIIs investment in India. The study found that returns on Indian stock market have positive impact whereas US stock market returns have no significant influence on FIIs investment to India. Stock market risk has negative influence on FIIs inflows to India. Market capitalization and stock market turnover of India have significant positive influence only in short-run. Dasgupta (2012) has attempted to explore the long-run and short-run relationships between FII and Indian stock market with other macroeconomic variables of Indian economy. Monthly data has been used for all the variables, i.e., FII, WPI, BSE SENSEX, EX and call money rate. The Granger causality test has found no short-run unilateral or bilateral causal relationships between FII with the macroeconomic variables like SENSEX. Arya & Purohit (2012) found that FII has gained a significant role in Indian stock markets. The beginning of 21st century has revealed the real dynamics of Indian stock market and its various benchmarking indices. The study was mainly focused to check the volatility of stock market & returns due to the existence of FIIs in India. Shrivastav (2013) examined whether market movement in terms of stock prices could be explained by foreign investors, and also examined the relationship between FII and Indian stock market. The study found that FII is thus an important macroeconomic indicator which can help us analyze a particular stock and the whole stock market in a better manner. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY The main objective is to investigate the causal relationship between Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) and Indian stock market (BSE SENSEX) & other macroeconomic aggregates namely Inflation rate (IR), Crude Oil Prices (CR) and Exchange rate (EXR). RESEARCH METHODOLOGY In the study, a time span of 14 years has been chosen for this study from April, 2000 to March, 2013 uses monthly data to portray a larger view of the relationship including 156 observations. Descriptive statistics has been used which provide a useful quantitative summary of macroeconomic indicators and BSE-SENSEX. For the purpose, measures of central tendency (mean) and measures of variability (standard deviation, range, minimum and maximum) to explain the dataset. Here, descriptive statistics provide a historical account of variables behaviour and convey some future aspects of the distribution of dataset. The current study unravels the linkage between FII & macroeconomic aggregates in the Indian context using techniques like regression, Granger causality test, ADF test & Unit root test using Eview7 Software. RBI website has been referred for FII, BSE-SENSEX, Inflation rate (WPI) and Exchange rate. Lastly Index Mundi has been referred for database of crude oil. 1.1 Descriptive Statistics Analysis Table1 presents a summary of descriptive statistics of all the variables in which sample mean, standard deviation, sum, maximum, minimum and range have been reported. These variables are FII, Bombay stock exchange’s main index i.e. SENSEX, inflation rate, crude oil price and Exchange rate. In the group of 156 observations, FII mean is 39.35 and its standard deviation is 73.74 which imply that there is a greater degree of variability in FII due to higher standard deviation as compared to FII mean. It means that it is normally distributed among its means. The mean of share price (SENSEX) is 10792.66, while its maximum price is 20249.7 for data series and the standard deviation is 6050.90 which considered being very high. It reflects significant variability in stock prices (SENSEX). Inflation rate mean is 6.13 and standard deviation is 2.58 implying that there is moderate variability in wholesale price index (WPI). Maximum value of WPI is 11.10 and minimum is -0.400. Crude oil mean is 267.58 and its standard deviation is 217.62 respectively. There is highly moderate variability in crude oil. The maximum price of crude oil is 803.75 for the data series and minimum is 43.60. Exchange rate mean is 46.43 and standard deviation is 3.40. It is seen from the Table 1 that there is no significant variability in Exchange rate driven from its mean. The maximum and minimum values of Exchange rate are 56.03 and 39.37 respectively. Table 1: Descriptive Statistics Indicators Mean S.D Sum Max Min Range FII 39.35 73.74 6139.08 295.070 -134.61 429.68 SENSEX 10792.66 6050.90 1683654 20249.75 2918.28 17331.47 Inflation rate 6.13 2.58 956.4 11.10 -0.400 11.5 Crude oil 267.58 217.62 41742.85 803.75 43.60 760.15 Exchange rate 46.43 3.40 49.84 56.03 39.37 16.66 Source: Compiled with Eviews 7 Software 1.2 Test for Stationary/ Non-Stationary It is a recognized fact that many financial time series are random walk or nonstationary time series and contain unit root. Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) Test is the popular test for unit root testing of time series. If yt is the time series to be tested for unit-root, then the test statistic for ADF unit root testing will be given by τ statistics, which is OLS estimate of coefficient of yt-1 in equation (1), divided by its standard error: n yt yt 1 t i yt i ut … i 1 The results of Unit Root Test i.e. Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) Test applied on FII and macroeconomic indicators by Akaike Information Criteria (AIC). The result indicates that FII along with macroeconomic indicators are non-stationary at level but becomes stationary at their first difference. The result of the Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) Test is shown in Table2: Table 2: Unit Root Test Result Series ADF Unit Root Test Statistics At Level FII At First Difference At Level None With Intercept With Trend and Intercept -6.438 -7.6263 -8.4054 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) -13.955 -13.9173 -9.8333 (0.000) 0.386 (0.000) -1.034 (0.000) -3.328 (0.794) (0.740) (0.066) -5.087 -5.192 -5.176 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) -0.518 -1.941 -2.999 (0.490) (0.312) (0.136) -5.158 -5.136 -5.090 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) 2.475 1.219 -1.260 (0.996) (0.998) (0.893) -3.881 -4.532 -4.919 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) 0.6056 -1.5542 -1.7819 (0.8462) (0.5035) (0.7089) -8.680 -8.696 -8.7091 (0.000) (0.000) (0.000) SENSEX At First Difference At Level Inflation rate At First Difference At level Crude oil At First Difference At Level Exchange rate At First Difference Source: Compiled with Eviews7 Software The result in Table 2 indicates that all the time series variables SENSEX and the other selected macroeconomic aggregates like Inflation Rate (IR), Crude oil (CR) and Exchange rate (EXR) are a random walk or non-stationary at their level but becomes stationary at their first difference. Subsequently, Only FII investment is stationary at their level where mean and variance are constant. Hence now granger causality test & regression analysis can be applied using first differencing of the variables. 1.3 Econometric Regression Analysis Econometric Regression analysis is a technique to check the effect of macroeconomics variables on FII and found some interesting results for the relationship. Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) has a dependent relationship among other macroeconomic aggregates such as BSE-SENSEX, Inflation Rate (IR) and Crude oil (CR). The null hypothesis has been tested on the basis of the p-value while the overall significance of model has been tested on the basis of F-sign. If the p-value and F- sign is less than the critical p-value and F-sign at 5% of significance level, then the null hypothesis is rejected and there will be a significant relation between the variables. The following statement of hypotheses is as follows: H0: There is no significant difference between FII and each macroeconomic aggregate (SENSEX, IR, CR and EXR). Ha: There is a significant difference between FII and each macroeconomic aggregate (SENSEX, IR, CR and EXR). The following variables which are stationary at the first differencing, take the log of original values and make a new variable which can be expressed as symbolically: ∆SENSEX= d log (SENSEX) ∆IR = d log (IR) ∆CR = d log (CR) ∆EXR = d log (EXR) The result of regression model is represented in Table 3 which can be expressed mathematically as: Y= α+β1∆SENSEX+β2∆IR+β3∆CR+β4∆EXR Where Y= ∆FII, α= Intercept, β1………… β3 = Slopes Independent variables or macroeconomic indicators= ∆SENSEX, ∆IR, ∆CR and ∆EXR Table 3: Econometric Regression Model by Equation between FII and other Macroeconomic Aggregates Α (Intercept) β Macroeconomic R2 Aggregates (R-square) ∆SENSEX 0.2180 34.8872 519.277 6.339 ∆IR 0.0023 39.4631 15.8883 ∆CR 0.0017 39.0584 ∆EXR 0.2183 42.253 T-stat F-Stat Remark 0.000 40.195 Reject H0 0.602 0.5474 0.363 Accept H0 23.7077 0.517 0.711 0.605 Accept H0 -1969.77 -6.537 0.000 42.742 Reject H0 (Slope) pvalue Source: Compiled with eview7 Software *Significant at 5% level The table above shows simple regression test for four macroeconomic indicators and FII. It was found through p-value and F-sign that there is a significant relationship between FII and SENSEX. That, means SENSEX does affect FII. BSE-SENSEX is considered as the representative of Indian stock market and used to obtain a measure of market price movement of Indian securities. Thus, Indian Stock market (SENSEX) had a significant impact on Foreign Institutional Investors (FII). It leads to the rejection of null hypothesis (H0) as p-value is less than 0.05 at level of significance. Further, EXR also had a significant influence on FII (Fvalue= 42.74, p<0.05 respectively). Thus, H0 is rejected from which it can be inferred that there is a significant difference between macroeconomic aggregate (EXR) and FII. Rest of the variables i.e. IR and CR had no effect on FII respectively. R2 shows the model fitness of a regression equation and also explains the variation in dependent variable which is made by an independent variable. Table 3 presented that inflation rate vis-a-vis crude oil explain very low variation in FII while SENSEX and EXR both explain approximately 22 per cent of variation in FII respectively. In the table, there are Intercept values and Slope values which help in forming regression equations in the form Yi = β0 + β1 Xi. 1.4 Granger Causality Test for the Relationship between Turnover and Macroeconomic Aggregates A statistical approach proposed by Clive W Granger (1969) to infer cause and effect relationship between two or more time series is known as Granger Causality. Granger Causality is based on the simple logic that effect cannot precede cause. It is important to note that the statement “x Granger causes y” does not imply that y is the effect or the result of x. In other words, Granger Causality is a technique for determining whether one time series is useful in forecasting another. It analyses the causal relationship between FII and macroeconomic aggregates like SENSEX, Inflation rate, Crude oil and Exchange rate. The study compares FII with other macroeconomic aggregates from the period of April 2000 to March 2013. For any time series data analysis, all data series get stationary. To study the stationary of the data series, the ADF have been conducted above. As the test confirmed that the data is stationary in nature. The direction of the causal relationship between the variables has been conducted by applying Granger Causality Test. The various hypotheses have been developed for the purpose as shown in the Table 4. If calculated p-value less than table value of 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected which implies x Granger cause y. The results of the Granger Causality Test are presented in Table 4. Table 4: PAIRWISE GRANGER CAUSALITY TESTS FOR FII Null Hypothesis F-Statistic p-value Result Relationship SENSEX does not Granger Cause FII 0.379 0.684 Accept H0 Unidirectional FII does not granger cause SENSEX 5.039 0.001 Reject H0 Relation Inflation rate does not Granger Cause FII 2.805 0.063 Accept H0 FII does not granger cause Inflation rate 0.531 0.588 Accept H0 Crude oil does not Granger Cause FII 0.840 0.433 Accept H0 FII does not granger cause Crude oil 2.402 0.094 Accept H0 No relation Exchange rate does not Granger Cause FII 0.852 0.428 Accept H0 Unidirectional FII does not granger cause Exchange rate 28.712 0.000 Reject H0 Relation No relation Source: Compiled with Eviews 7 Software It is observed from the Table 4 that the variables like inflation rate and crude oil do not granger cause FII as indicated by statistic values as the p-values are calculated more than that of 0.05 which leads to acceptance of null hypothesis at 5 per cent level. It indicates that there is no relation exists between inflation rate & FII and Crude oil & FII. Further, the results reveal that FII causes SENSEX and Exchange rate as presented in Table that the Fstatistic is 5.039, 28.712 respectively and p-value is 0.001 & 0.000 respectively less than critical value i.e. 0.05 which implies that the null hypothesis is rejected i.e. it proves that FII granger causes SENSEX and Exchange rate. As far as causality relationship is concerned, a unidirectional causality or one way causality is found from FII towards SENSEX and Exchange rate. Thus FII affects Indian stock market (SENSEX) and Exchange rate as well. CONCLUSION For exploring the determinants of FIIs investment, FIIs net investment has been modelled by including, both financial and macro-economic variables together. BSE-SENSEX has positive and significant impact on FII. 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