The effect of fluctuations of the Tehran Stock Exchange index (TEDPIX) on return of investment in gold

Return (TEDPIX) and whether its relation changes in times of consecutive negative market returns for an indeveloping market, Iran.
The paper applies the autoregressive distributed model to link gold returns to stock returns with TGARCH/EGARCH error specification using daily data from 6, th Farvardin 1390 to 24, th Shahrinar 1391, a total of 341 observations.
Findings show A significant positive but low correlation is found between gold and once-lagged stock returns that was not significant in 5% level. Moreover, consecutive negative market returns do not seem to intensify the co-movement between the gold and stock markets as normally documented among national stock markets in times of financial turbulences. Indeed, there is some evidence that the gold market surges when faced with consecutive market declines.
Based on these results, there are potential benefits of gold investment
during periods of stock market slumps. The findings should prove useful for designing financial investment portfolios.
Originality value of this paper is to evaluate the role of gold from a domestic perspective, which should be more relevant to domestic investors in guarding against recurring heightened stock market risk.