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This study aims to examine the relation between population composition and financial market variables in post-war Japan.
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to examine the relation between population composition and financial market variables in post-war Japan.
Design/methodology/approach
Cointegration and Granger causality tests are applied to annual data for the period 1948-2015.
Findings
Accounting for nonstationarity, this study finds long-run equilibrium relations between real financial price (stock and house) indices and the proportion of population in the prime earning (45-64) or retirement (65+) age. Granger causality tests that account for possibly nonstationary variables find some evidence of dynamic causation running from the 45-64 cohort to the real financial price indices. No such evidence is found for the 65+ cohort.
Originality/value
This study complements the existing literature primarily based on US data with analysis of Japanese data that has some unique population composition features.
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H. Binner, H.T. Law, N. Sinnadurai, G. Jones and P.E. Ongley
Following the discussion at our recent Annual General Meeting, a questionnaire was sent out to all members. Almost half of them replied despite the fact that the time allowed for…
Abstract
Following the discussion at our recent Annual General Meeting, a questionnaire was sent out to all members. Almost half of them replied despite the fact that the time allowed for returning the questionnaire had been kept very short. Some members even provided detailed comments.