The Impact of the Macroeconomic Factors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during the Latest Crisis

Authors: 
Cristina Balint
JEL codes: 
B22 - Macroeconomics, C32 - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models, G10 - General.
Abstract: 
The purpose of the paper is to observe and analyze how the dynamics of macroeconomic factors impact the evolution of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) during the latest crisis (Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukrainian war), through the lens of various market stock indices (BET, BetPlus, BET-FI and BET-NG). After the monthly values of both the macroeconomic factors (inflation rate, unemployment rate, RON-EURO exchange rates, industrial production index, average salary, money supply, interest rate and oil price) and Bucharest Stock Exchange indices were collected, during the period January 2020- June 2023, the descriptive statistics was used to describe all the observed data (mean value, standard deviation, minimum/ maximum value). Finally, the multiple regression was used to see exactly how the Romanian stock market indices are influenced by any changes of macroeconomic factors.
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