The effects of macroeconomic factors on stock returns:
Istanbul Stock Market
Findings – Using the OLS technique, the authors observed that there are some differences among the market portfolios. Before starting to comment on the result of OLS, the serial correlation problem was discussed by using Durbin-Watson statistics. In this study, the critical values were ranged from
between 1.33 and 1.81 (T ¼ 57, K ¼ 6). Our test results confirmed that in ten out of the 13 there were no serial correlations. Our results show that there are big differences among market portfolios against macroeconomic variables through the variation of R 2 . In the remaining portfolios; there was no
evidence to suggest.