The Impact of Lithium, Cobalt, and Nickel on the Diverse Automobile Market

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School of Business | Bachelor's thesis
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2023

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Rahoitus

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en

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22 + 12

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This thesis explores the relationship between stock performance of automobile manufacturers and battery metal prices, investigating several hypotheses. Nota-bly, manufacturers with EV-centric and diverse product lines with EV involve-ment exhibited significant betas for lithium, cobalt, and nickel, evidencing varied market dynamics. The variances in beta signs underscore the multifaceted na-ture of the automotive market, influenced by technology, investor behavior, re-gional policies, and mixed product offerings. The methodological framework involved executing individual OLS regressions for each company with an ex-panded Fama-French three-factor model, integrating battery metal factors to analyse the relationships of the market.

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Lof, Matthijs

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automobile manufacturing, electric vehicle, lithium, cobalt, nickel, battery metals

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