Revisiting the impact of foreign portfolio investment on stock market performance during COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty: Evidence from India

This paper re-examines the causality between stock returns and foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows in the Indian context during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Covid-19 index constructed by Narayan et al. [19] and the Toda and Yamamoto Granger causality test, the study reveals that bi-directio...

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Main Authors: K.P. Prabheesh, Sanjiv Kumar, Ameen Omar Shareef
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:MethodsX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016122003624
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Summary:This paper re-examines the causality between stock returns and foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows in the Indian context during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Covid-19 index constructed by Narayan et al. [19] and the Toda and Yamamoto Granger causality test, the study reveals that bi-directional causality runs from FPI flows to stock returns in the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Whereas after the peak of the pandemic, there is a unidirectional causality that runs from FPI flows to stock returns. • Bi-directional causality runs from FPI flows to stock return during the initial period of COVID. • In the second period, unidirectional causality runs from FPI flows to stock returns
ISSN:2215-0161