Table 2

Data description

Panel A: variables
VariablesDescriptionsSources
Stock market indices (SP)Price of ordinary shares in companies listed on domestic or foreign stock exchangesOECD and IMF
Consumer price index (CPI)CPI is a measure of the overall change in the prices of goods and services consumedIMF
Interest rate (IR)Money Market Rate for Russia and Iceland and long run interest rate for other countriesOECD and IMF
 Time Series dataDefinitions
Inflation (INF)It is the difference between the log-transformed CPI at time (t) and time (⁠t−1⁠)INFt=LCPIt−LCPIt−1
Expected inflation (EINF)It is calculated using the (Hodrick and Prescott, 1997) filterEINF = E(INFt|Ωt−1)
Unanticipated inflation (UNINF)It is the difference between inflation and expected inflationUNINF =INFt−EINF
Nominal return (R)It is the difference between the log (LSP) share price at time (t) and time (⁠t−1⁠)Rt=LSPt−LSPt−1
Real return (RR)It is the difference between nominal return (R) and inflation (INF)RRt=Rt−INFt
 Cross-sectional data creation 
R̅iIt is the average of nominal yield over time, for i=1⁠, …, 32R̅i=∑tTRitT
RR̅iIt is the average of real yield over time, for i=1⁠, …, 32RR̅i=∑tTRRitT
INF̅iIt is the average of inflation over time, for i=1⁠, …, 32INF̅i=∑tTINFitT
EINF̅iIt is the average of expected inflation over time, for i=1⁠, …, 32EINF̅i=∑tTEINFitT
UNEINF̅iIt is the average of unexpected inflation over time, for i=1⁠, …, 32UNEINF̅i=∑tTUNEINFitT
Panel B: sample of countries
Group I: euro vs non-euro countries
European countriesNon-European countries
Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Island, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, RussiaChina, India, Indonesia, Japan, Turkey, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Malaysia, USA, Canada, Brazil, Colombia and Chile
Group II: developed vs emerging countries
Developed countriesEmerging countries
Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxemburg, Poland, Canada, United States, Chile, Japan, Malaysia and TurkeyBrazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Bangladesh, China and India

Note(s): The (Hodrick and Prescott, 1997) HP filter requires the minimum of ∑t=0T(xt+xt̅)2+θ∑t=0T−1[(x̅t+1−x̅t)(x̅t−x̅t−1)], for θ>0⁠. This method breaks down an x-series into its trend (the expected components) and cyclical components (the unexpected components). OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. IMF: International Monetary Fund. The country classification is based on the 2021 IMF classification

Source(s): Authors’ elaboration

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