Abstract:

Oil, which is one of the indispensable factor of production sectors and the most important element of the types of energy, price changes affect the financial sector besides the real sector in recent years. In this study, the relationship have been investigated between oil prices and stock prices of companies, which are operating in Turkey, included in Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) Chemical, Petroleum, Plastics index that oil is the main production factors of these companies. For this purpose, whether there is a long-term relationship between BIST Chemical, Petroleum, Plastic index and oil prices, was tested with Jusellius Johansen cointegration test. Granger Causality Test method was used to determine the direction of causality between variables. As a result of the analysis, cointegration relationship was found between oil prices and BIST Chemical, Petroleum, Plastic index. In addition, a unidirectional causal relationship has been found from oil prices to BIST Chemical, Petroleum, Plastics index.

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