Financial risk exposures of the airlines industry: Evidence from Cathay Pacific Airways and China Airlines

Narandaran, Yasmin Yashodha * and Baharom Abdul Hamid, and Muzaffar Shah Habibullah, (2016) Financial risk exposures of the airlines industry: Evidence from Cathay Pacific Airways and China Airlines. International Journal of Business and Society, 17 (2). pp. 221-244.

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Abstract

This study explores the long run and dynamic relationships between the stock price of Cathay Pacific Airways and China Airlines against key determinants of financial risks exposure confronting the airline industry, which include interest-rate, exchange rate and fuel price risk exposures for the period of January 1996 to December 2011. The (Johansen & Juselius, 1990) cointegration technique was employed to detect any long time trending relationship followed Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and Vector Auto-Regression (VAR). The generalised forecast error variance decomposition and the generalised impulse response function were employed to comprehend the effects of theses financial risk exposures. Our empirical results suggest that exchange rate movements have a substantial impact, compared to the fuel price and interest rate exposures against the stock price of the analysed airline. Our findings play a pertinent role in the determination of the respective airlines foreign vulnerability and financial policies which would be helpful for industry players and policy makers from a financial stability perspective.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Second author is with INCEIF University; 3rd author is Universiti Putra Malaysia
Uncontrolled Keywords: Airline; stock price; VECM; VAR; IRF
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions: Others > Non Sunway Academics
Sunway University > Sunway University Business School > Dept. Accounting
Depositing User: Dr Janaki Sinnasamy
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Date Deposited: 02 Nov 2016 06:31
Last Modified: 24 May 2019 04:51
URI: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/id/eprint/419

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