Inflation and Financial Market Performance: What Have We Learned in the Last Ten Years?

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John H. Boyd

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

Bruce A. Champ

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Date Written: December 2003

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed a great deal of theoretical and empirical research on the relationships between inflation, financial market performance, and economic growth. This paper provides a survey of that literature and presents new cross-country empirical results on this topic. We find that inflation is negatively associated with banking industry size, real returns on financial assets, and bank profitability. We also discover a positive relationship between asset return volatility and inflation.

Keywords: inflation, financial markets, economic growth, banking, financial assets

JEL Classification: E40, E44, O16

Suggested Citation

Boyd, John H. and Champ, Bruce A., Inflation and Financial Market Performance: What Have We Learned in the Last Ten Years? (December 2003). FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 03-17, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1026081 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1026081

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