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        <article-title>Fundamental Factors Affecting the MOEX Russia Index: Retrospective Analysis1</article-title>
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          <label>0</label>
          <institution>National Research University Higher School of Economics</institution>
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          <addr-line>Perm</addr-line>
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          <country country="RU">Russia</country>
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        <p>This paper is an empirical study of the changing nature of the dependence of fundamental factors on the stock market index, which is the trend identified earlier in the Russian stock market. We empirically test the impact of daily values of fundamental factors on the MOEX Russia Index from 2003 to 2018. The analysis of the ARIMA-GARCH (1,1) model with a rolling window reveals that the change in the power and direction of the influence of the fundamental factors on the Russian stock market persists. The Quandt-Andrews breakpoint test and Bai-Perron test identify the number and likely location of structural breaks. We find multiple breaks probably associated with the dramatic falls of the stock market index. The results of the regression models over the different regimes, defined by the structural breaks, can vary markedly over time. This research is of value in macroeconomic forecasting and in the investment strategy development.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Russian stock market</kwd>
        <kwd>fundamental factors</kwd>
        <kwd>structural instability</kwd>
        <kwd>structural breaks</kwd>
        <kwd>rolling regression</kwd>
        <kwd>breakpoint tests</kwd>
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      <title>-</title>
      <p>
        Fundamental analysis is widely used to study the Russian stock market [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref12 ref16 ref17 ref23 ref27 ref5">1, 5, 12, 16,
17, 23, 27</xref>
        ] and has great importance to study stock market deeply. Despite relative
success of using fundamental analysis, there is now mounting evidence that the
parameters of regression models are unstable and subject to structural breaks. Structural
instability in the Russian stock market is reflected in the high variability of estimated
coefficients [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref23">1, 23</xref>
        ] and in presence of the structural breaks [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
        ]. Some researchers of
Russian stock market believe that this is caused by a change in the stock market
regimes [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
        ]. Structural instability was also found for foreign stock markets [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18 ref20 ref26">18, 20,
26</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        Failure to take into account the structural breaks in financial data results in many
undesirable consequences. For example, the use of static statistical models leads to
underestimating the true relationship between variables and complicates the
prediction [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
        ]. Understanding how fundamental factors affect the Russian stock market has
great significance in macroeconomic forecasting, in particular in the field of early
warning systems for financial crises [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10 ref28">10, 28</xref>
        ], and in the investment strategy
development. It was revealed that some fundamental factors are good signals for identifying
systemic risks in the Russian market, for instance, the oil price is one of the indicators
of credit risk [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref28">28</xref>
        ]. Therefore, before the using of such factors for forecasting, it is
important to detect structural breaks and to identify the factors or events caused them.
      </p>
      <p>The present study aims to examine the impact of daily values of fundamental
factors on the MOEX Russia Index from 2003 to 2018. As a basic variable describing the
global character of Russian stock market, the MOEX Russia Index contains
information about the most liquid stocks of the largest Russian companies. This article is
organized as follows. We firstly provide an overview of the fundamental factors of
the stock markets and present the recent developments in the field of structural
instability. Then we estimate ARIMA and ARIMA-GARCH models for understanding the
relationship between variables on average in the interval. Next we analyze how the
influence of fundamental factors has changed over the years, by applying a regression
analysis with a rolling window. Then we use statistical tests to detect the change
points and explain the breaks together with the nearby big economic events.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>Theoretical background</title>
      <sec id="sec-2-1">
        <title>Fundamental factors of Russian stock market</title>
        <p>There is a substantial literature on studying different fundamental factors to explain
the dynamics of the Russian stock market. These factors reflect the degree of
integration of the Russian stock market into the international financial market, state of the
economy and the stock market participants.</p>
        <p>
          The international integration of the Russian stock market with other countries is
reflected in the dependence on the stock market indices and the indicators of the foreign
credit markets. For example, the positive and significant influence of the US stock
market on average over the interval was revealed by analyzing the daily [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12 ref16 ref23">12, 16, 23</xref>
          ]
and weekly returns on stocks and indices of the Russian stock market [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
          ]. The
influence of the NIKKEI 225 index on the MICEX index was found significantly positive
on daily data from 2001 to 2010 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
          ]. It was revealed on daily data from 1995 to 2011
the Russian stock market to the greater extent is influenced by the volatility of the
German and Japanese stock markets, and to a lesser extent by the volatility of the
Hong Kong, Korean and British stock markets [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
          ]. The negative impact of 3-month
US Treasury bills rate in Russian stock market was identified in earlier studies [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>
          The state of the main economic sectors in the country is reflected in, for example,
indicators of the credit and money markets and macroeconomic indicators. The
influence of the 1-month Moscow interbank offer rate on MSCI index on average is
negative on weekly data from 1995 to 2005, while the indicators of the Russian money
market are statistically insignificant on weekly data from 2000 to 2004 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
          ]. The GDP
index is the least significant of the other macroeconomic factors on monthly data from
January 2007 to September 2008 according to analysis of MICEX index by using
EGARCH model [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">14</xref>
          ]. The influence of exchange rate was found statistically
insignificant for weekly data from 1995 to 2004 on average over the interval [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>
          Most of the Russian stock market value is in export-oriented energy companies.
Therefore, indicators of their financial statements depend on the dynamics of external
factors, in particular, on the price of oil. The positive statistically significant effect of
oil prices was revealed on daily data from 2001 to 2006 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
          ]. Although there was no
significant effect of oil prices on the profitability of Russian stocks [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17">17</xref>
          ] on monthly
data from 1995 to 2003. In addition, it was found that the market reacted negatively to
dividend announcements on average over the period from 2010 to 2012 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>
          ]. The
performance of Russian stock market is also influenced by other factors, for example,
public opinion [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>
          ] and news events [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref15 ref16">15, 16</xref>
          ]. However, the researchers study them
separately from the factors mentioned above.
        </p>
        <p>From the above analysis, we can conclude that in recent years, dynamic of the
Russian stock market is defined by the international integration the US and Japan stock
market indices and the interest rates of the US and Russian credit markets, exchange
rate, and by the oil prices, influencing the financial statement of the stock market
participants, represented by companies in the fuel and energy sector.
2.2</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-2">
        <title>Detecting the structural instability of Russian stock market</title>
        <p>
          The majority of studies have concentrated on investigating the influence of the
fundamental factors on average over a defined time period, while some researchers
mentioned above [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref12 ref23">1, 12, 23</xref>
          ] found that inside this time period the influence of the
fundamental factor change significantly. For example, the rolling regression analysis
on weekly data indicates that the regression coefficients for the American MSCI
index have been halved throughout the period 2000- 2003 and the explanatory power of
the regression varies from a few percent in 2003 to nearly 50% in 2004 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
          ]. In
addition, in the literature there are conflicting results on the influence of fundamental
factors in different time intervals, for example, in studying the influence of oil prices
[
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17 ref23">17, 23</xref>
          ] and stock markets indexes of other countries [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref27 ref5">5, 27</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>
          A possible reason for such instability is the presence of structural breaks was tested
for stock markets in other countries, e.g., the UK and Japan [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ], the USA [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2 ref22 ref26 ref29">2, 22, 26,
29</xref>
          ], Hong Kong [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ], China [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref20">20</xref>
          ] etc. Some early attempts to test for a structural break
in Russian stock market are found in analyzing the degree of dependence of the
indices MICEX and RTS on the dynamics of the S&amp;P 500 index and Brent crude oil price
on daily data for the period 1997-2014 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
          ]. It was found that the regression
coefficients can vary markedly over the different intervals identified by structural breaks.
The presence of the structural breaks in the volatility of returns for “Gazprom”
ordinary shares on the daily data for the period of 2006-2016 has been also proven by the
using new method based on the moving likelihood ratio statistics in the
piecewisespecified GARCH-models [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
          ]. Structural breaks can be caused by a number of
reasons: changing in the stock market regimes [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
          ] or in monetary and debt management
policies, market sentiments and speculative bubbles [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref24">24</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>Building on these pioneering literatures we conduct an update retrospective
analysis in the Russian stock market over a longer time interval the with aggregation of a</p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-3">
      <title>Data</title>
      <p>large number of fundamental factors and analyze the structural instability in terms of
time and factors. The present paper contributes to the existing literature by formally
testing for structural breaks a multivariate and bivariate regression models of the
MOEX Russia Index based on fundamental factors appearing in the extant literature.
This paper uses daily data of the MOEX Russia Index (IMOEX) and fundamental
factors for the period of January 21, 2003 - April 13, 2018. Data from the daily
closing prices of S&amp;P500 (S&amp;P500) and NIKKEI 225 (NIKKEI), Brent crude oil price
(BRENT) and ruble/USD official exchange rates (USDCB) are published on the
official website of Finam. 3-month US Treasury bills rate (TBILL) and 1-month Moscow
interbank offer rate (MIBOR) are from the official website of the Central Bank of the
Russian Federation and US Department of Treasury, respectively. Data on the
Moscow interbank offer rate is available until December 30, 2016.</p>
      <p>
        Weekends and holidays are deleted from the data. We use log-return, ∆ln(pt) =
ln(pt/pt-1 ), of stock market indexes, oil price and exchange rate and first differences
(∆yt = yt - yt-1) of interest rates in the Russian Federation and the USA which are
stationary based on the ADF and PP tests. Tab. 1 below gives descriptive statistics of the
data. Log-return of IMOEX and BRENT were most volatile among other log-return of
variables during our sample period. And the Russian interest rate is more volatile than
interest rate in the USA.
To analyze the structural instability, we estimate ARIMA and ARIMA-GARCH
models with fundamental factors of Russian stock market. GARCH models are used for
modeling time series data when the data exhibits heteroscedasticity and volatility
clustering and are most popular in the econometrics literature for modeling the
indicators on the Russian stock market [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref16 ref17 ref21 ref23">17, 16, 21, 23</xref>
        ]. We select the lag order p and the
order of moving average q for ARIMA (p,d,q) model based on minimizing the Akaike
information criteria and the Schwartz information criteria. Due to the insignificance
of the regression coefficients and the difficulty in interpreting a large number of lags
we use the lag order p=1 applied in the earlier studies of the Russian stock market
[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        Since the trading session in New York opens later than trading in Moscow, only
the previous day’s S&amp;P returns can be used in regression explaining stock market
returns in Moscow [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18 ref23">18, 23</xref>
        ]. American markets continue to operate, while Russian
domestic markets are already closed, hence we include lagged 3-month US Treasury
bills rate in equations [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ]. The exchange rate and the price of Brent crude oil are
lagged in estimated equations too. The NIKKEI is taken without a lag of 1 day, since
the trading session in Japan is closed before the Moscow trading session opens [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18 ref23">18,
23</xref>
        ]. The MIBOR is also taken without a lag of 1 day [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ]. In this paper to explain the
dynamics of the Russian stock market we include fundamental factors used in recent
econometric studies of the structural instability in Russian stock market [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref12 ref16 ref18 ref23 ref26">1, 12, 16, 18,
23, 26</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>Thus, the equation to be estimated is:
∆ln(IMOEX)t = β0+ β1*∆ln(IMOEX)t-1 + β2*∆ln(SANDP)t-1 + β3*∆ln(BRENT)t-1+
+β4*∆ln(NIKKEI)t+ β5*∆ln(USDCB)t-1+ β6*∆MIBORt + β7*∆TBILLt-1 + εt. (1)
where β1… β7 are unknown regression coefficients and εt is an error term, t = 2, ...,
3479. For a multivariate model with using Russian short-time interest rate, MIBOR,
the time period until 2016:12 will be used.</p>
      <p>
        Then, the ARIMA-GARCH (1,1) model with fundamental factors is estimated to
check the stability of the regression results. The GARCH model (1,1) is widely used
in econometric papers for analysis of the Russian stock market [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref16 ref23">16, 23</xref>
        ]. Hence, εt
error term could follow process: σt2 = α0 + α1εt-12 + γσt-12.
      </p>
      <p>
        Further, by analogy with existing econometric studies of the structural instability in
Russian stock market [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref18 ref23">1, 18, 23</xref>
        ], we use rolling regressions with the
ARIMAGARCH model (1,1) with fundamental factors specification in order to estimate
timevarying coefficients βi in equation (1). The window length is 240 days that is
approximately equal to the number of trading days per year excluding weekends and
holidays. Equation (1) is estimated for the interval (t-240, t) for each t (t&gt; 241) and
regression coefficients βi (t), i = 1, ..., 8, t = 241, ..., 3478.
      </p>
      <p>
        In the presence of structural instability, the most important issue is to detect the
change points. When the break point is known, testing for structural breaks is a
standard and, for instance, can be based on the Chow test. When the break point is
unknown, it is required to use valid for unknown break points statistical procedures. In
this paper the Quandt-Andrews and Bay-Perron tests are used to search for unknown
structural changes in the models by analogy with existing econometric studies of the
Russian [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
        ] and American [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref26">26</xref>
        ] stock markets. More specifically, we use the
QuandtAndrews test [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref25 ref3 ref4">3, 4, 25</xref>
        ] to test for a structural break at an unknown date for a given
regression equation. The algorithm is the application of the Chow test for each
observation τ between surrounding dates or observations, τ1 and τ2. The most likely change
point is an observation for which F-statistic F(τ) is maximum. The maximum value of
the all calculated individual Chow F-statistics is:

= max ( ( ))
 1≤ ≤ 2
(2)
      </p>
      <p>
        While the Quandt-Andrews test is primarily designed to test for a single structural
break, multiple breaks may exist. We also use the Bai-Perron test [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6 ref7">6, 7</xref>
        ] to test for
multiple structural breaks at unknown dates. We consider a standard model of
multiple linear regression with T periods and potential structural breaks m that divide the
sample into m + 1 different regimes. The null hypothesis of no breaks is tested against
the alternative hypothesis of an unknown number of breaks with an upper-bound, m*,
using two statistics UDmax and WDmax [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">6</xref>
        ]. In addition to the multivariate model,
we test for structural breaks in six bivariate regression models of the IMOEX to
identify breaks for each of the six fundamental factors listed in the previous section. After
that we analyze the possible dates of change points and interpret the results.
      </p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-4">
      <title>Empirical results</title>
      <sec id="sec-4-1">
        <title>Estimates of ARIMA and ARIMA-GARCH (1,1) models</title>
        <p>
          Estimates of the regression models for the IMOEX log-return are presented in Table
2. The signs of the regression coefficients are resistant to changing of model
specification. All variables in ARIMA-GARCH (1,1) model, with the exception of the
logreturn of exchange rate and the first differences of the US interest rate are statistically
significant at 1% level; Russian short-term interest rate is statistically significant at
10% level. Similar signs of the regression coefficients for the log-return of the
MICEX, S&amp;P 500, NIKKEI 225 stock indexes and oil price were noted in [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
          ] on
daily log-return data of the MICEX index from 2000 to 2010. It indicates that, on
average, over a given interval, these fundamental factors retain their influence.
∆ln(IMOEX)t-1
∆ln(NIKKEI)t
 ̂2−1  - (00. 8.0626505*)**
Adjusted R2 0.1030 0.0801
Observations 3478 3478
        </p>
        <p>Notes: *, **, *** indicate significance at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively; robust standard
errors are given in parentheses.
5.2</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-4-2">
        <title>Estimates of models in rolling windows</title>
        <p>
          Further, we run rolling regression for ARIMA-GARCH (1,1) model with fundamental
factors to analyze how the influence of fundamental factors on the Russian stock
market has changed over the years. The evolution of regression coefficients with 95%
confidence intervals is presented in Fig. 1.
The influence of NIKKEI turns out to be strong positive in June-October 2009: the
regression coefficient is from 0.67 to 0.81, more than three times that the average
value, 0.19, in this period. In the last years the degree of its influence has been
decreasing however, influence is the statistically significant: the Japanese market is the
nearest to the Russian stock market in terms of closing time, and it absorbs the latest
news from the global financial market that appeared after the closing of the trading
session in the USA on the previous trading day [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>The influence of the interest rates of the USA and Russia is the most unstable:
during the period their influence constantly switched from positive to negative that
greatly complicates the economic interpretation of these factors.</p>
        <p>
          The evolution of the regression R2 is depicted in Fig. 2. The explanatory power of
the regression varies considerably, from almost zero, observed May 15, 2005 and in
February – December 2015 to nearly 25% in June-September 2009. Similar findings
were noted in [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1 ref18 ref23">1, 18, 23</xref>
          ]. In [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
          ] the sharp increase in explanation power during the
crisis of 2008–2009 was explained by high values of market returns and volatility for
a given period of time.
        </p>
        <p>0.30
0.25
0.20
0.15
0.10
0.05
0.00
-0.05
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014</p>
        <p>2016</p>
        <p>The results indicate that influence of all fundamental factors on the IMOEX is not
constant: the power and direction of the influence change during the period.
Maximum values of regression coefficients for NIKKEI, S&amp;P500, BRENT and lagged
IMOEX are several times greater than the average during the period. The greatest
impact of NIKKEI has been on IMOEX during the 2009 crisis, BRENT – in 2006,
2009-2010, S&amp;P500 and lagged IMOEX – in 2007 that includes the pre-crisis, crisis
and post-crisis periods.
5.3</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-4-3">
        <title>Detection of structural breaks in multivariate model</title>
        <p>The result of the Quandt-Andrews test for the ARIMA model with fundamental
factors is presented in Fig. 3. The maximum value of F-statistics (16.46) is statistically
significant at 1% level and is reached on November 28, 2008. It is the most likely
point of a structural break.</p>
        <p>The results of statistical tests indicate the most likely points of a structural breaks;
however, we should explain the breaks together with the nearby big economic events.
The first break date, likely, corresponds to the events in May 2006. On May 22, 2006
the MICEX index fell by 9.65 percent and reached the lowest level since January 19,
2006 - 1143.76 points. Trading had been suspended on Russian stock exchange for
the first time after the market collapse on October 27, 2003 related to the Yukos
affair. The second break data in November 2008 corresponds to the global financial
crisis of this year. The crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United States led
to a liquidity crisis of world banks, a crisis in the real sector of the economy and a
production decline in many countries. For three months the capitalization of Russian
companies fell by three quarters and a drop in oil prices results in economic
slowdown. Thus, the results indicate that the structural breaks are probably defined by the
dramatic falls of the stock market index that had a significant impact on the economy.</p>
        <p>The results of the regression models over the different regimes, defined by the
structural breaks, presented in Table 4, can vary markedly over time. The maximum
value of R2, 28 %, is reached in the second time period, including the pre-crisis and
crisis periods. Similar values of R2 were noted in rolling regression model. In the first
and third periods, the R2 does not exceed 5 %. In all models, NIKKEI and BRENT
have a positive effect at a 1% level. For these factors, the slope coefficients are almost
three times smaller as we move from the second regime to the third regime, so that the
predictive power of these factors is substantially reduced over the last eight years of
the full sample.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-4-4">
        <title>Detection of structural breaks in bivariate models</title>
        <p>Structural breaks for different fundamental factors can occur at different dates. Table
5 presents the results for statistically significant bivariate regression models with
fundamental factors of the Russian stock market – NIKKEI, S&amp;P 500, BRENT and
MIBOR. We find evidence of single structural break in three of six bivariate
regression models in the second half of 2008, in period of the global financial crisis that was
revealed for multivariate regression model. There is evidence of multiple structural
breaks in bivariate predictive regression models of IMOEX based on the NIKKEI 225
index. In addition to the breaks identified for the multivariate regression model, the
most likely change points are also April 7, 2011 and March 17, 2014. The results
indicate that structural breaks for multivariate and bivariate regression models can
differ.</p>
        <p>
          The presence of structural breaks was tested earlier on daily data from 1997 to
2014 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
          ]. There was evidence of three structural breaks in bivariate regression model
of IMOEX based on S&amp;P 500 index (June 21, 2003; June 5, 2007 and April 12,
2011), and four structural breaks in bivariate regression model of IMOEX based on
Brent oil (December 19, 2001; January 18, 2006; July 18, 2008 and July 21, 2011). It
can indicate that the results may depend on the statistical procedure, the time period,
transformations for the data, and data frequency is used in the work. Despite the fact
that in this study no identical breaks were detected, the presence of structural breaks
for these fundamental factors is confirmed.
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        </p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-5">
      <title>Conclusion</title>
      <p>In this paper, building on these pioneering literatures about changing nature of the
dependence of fundamental factors in Russian stock market, we study the effect of
daily values of fundamental factors on the MOEX Russia Index over a longer time
interval (2003-2018). This study updated the results of earlier papers. The results
indicate that influence of fundamental factors on the IMOEX is not constant: the
power and direction of the influence change during the period. It is observed for both
multivariate and bivariate regression models. The regression coefficients for the
different regimes, defined by the structural breaks, can vary markedly over time by
several times. For this reason, failure to consider the structural breaks in financial data
results in underestimating the true relationship between variables. However, the
results indicate that structural breaks for multivariate and bivariate regression models
can differ.</p>
      <p>The structural breaks in the multivariate regression model of MOEX Russia Index
(April 25, 2006 and November 28, 2008) are probably associated with the dramatic
falls of the stock market index. It can be caused by a sharp change in dynamics of
fundamental factors or other factors and events that were not taken into account in
regression models but affected the behavior of investors. Understanding the probable
causes of the changing nature of relationships between variables can be used to
predict the influence of fundamental factors on the stock market index in the future.</p>
      <p>
        The using of other methods to detect structural breaks, for example, the using of
the Markov-switching time series model [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11 ref19">11, 19</xref>
        ] is one of the directions for future
research.
      </p>
    </sec>
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