Returns and Interest Rate: A Nonlinear Relationship in the Bogotá Stock Market

Abstract

This work presents some evidence of the nonlinear and inverse relationschip between the share prices on the Bogotá stock market and the interest rate as measured by the interbank loan interest rate, which is to some extent affected by monetary policy. The model captures the stylised fact on this market of higt dependence of returns in short market in Colombia. Evidence of a non constant equity premium is also found. The work uses daily data from january 1994 up to February 2000.nonlinearities, stock returns, interest rate, smooth transition regression, GARCH models.