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The Effect Of Interest Rate Changes On Bank Stocks, John Vaz, Mohamed Ariff, Robert Brooks
The Effect Of Interest Rate Changes On Bank Stocks, John Vaz, Mohamed Ariff, Robert Brooks
Mohamed Ariff
This study examines the effect of publicly announced changes in official interest rates on the stock returns of the major banks in Australia during the period from 1990 to 2005. Previous studies of such effects have reported inconclusive and mixed results. US evidence suggests that banking stocks are generally negatively (positively) impacted by increases (decreases) in official interest rates. We find, somewhat unexpectedly, that Australian bank stock returns are not negatively impacted by the announced increases in official interest rates. Furthermore, banks apparently experience net-positive abnormal returns when cash rates are increased, which is consistent with dividend valuation theory that …