Are stocks an inflation hedge?

Is there a relationship between inflation and stock returns in India? A recent study that looked at monthly data between 1994 and 2014 shows that there is no significant pro-cyclical inter-dependency between inflation and stock returns.

However, the paper does not present the results of any statistical significance tests. This leaves the reader at the mercy of trying to interpret pretty pictures of wavelet transforms.

On the Dynamics of Inflation-Stock Returns in India