The Asymmetric Effect of Oil Price Shock on Stock Market: Evidence from Oil Exporting Countries

This paper performs an empirical investigation into the relationship between oil price and stock market price for five countries (Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Qatar and Iran) using panel unit root test, panel co-integration test and Breusch-Pagan cross-section dependency test. For this aim, daily data for oil price, gold price, exchange rate and stock exchange index from countries since January 2008 to July 2012 have been used. Breusch-Pagan LM test for cross-sectional dependency and SUR method is used in our sample. The empirical findings show the asymmetric effect of oil price shock on stock market in oil exporting countries.