Interrelation Between Capital Market Index And Economic Growth: Comparison Among United-States, England And Japan, By Using Granger Causality Test

The purpose of this research is to examine the interrelationship between capital market index and economic growth among United-States of America, England and Japan. Capital market and economic growth are both key elements upon what a national economic development relies on. In order to find out whether capital market ndex and economic growth are interrelated each other, Granger Causality Test was employed, when Augmented Dickey Fuller Test was used to check the stationary of historical data. The variables of the study were S&P 100, FTSE 100, Nikkei 225, and GDPs. Quarterly data obtained from official trustful websites were used. The period of the study was from the premier quarter of 1987 to the last quarter of 2016. The findings conclude that there is an interrelation between capital market index and economic growth, but the direction of causality between the two variables is different in each country. A unidirectional causality from capital market index to economic growth has observed in case of United-States of America. Feed-back causality between capital market index and economic growth has seen in England. and a unidirectional causality has examined between capital market index and economic growth in Japan. The result of the present study is hoping to give an acknowledgement about how far capital market contributes on development of nation through a prospering economic growth; and vice-versa