consequences to the economic activities. This paper takes a different approach to the issue,
which aims to examine the bidirectional relationships between fiscal policy and stock market
activities, using a panel of 12 emerging Asia-Pacific economies from 1990 to 2015. We
estimate a variety of Panel Vector Autoregressive models to test for the consistence of the
results. The empirical results show that fiscal policies in these countries tend to a pro-cyclical …