Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries
The global lockout triggered by coronavirus has made the disease both a health problem and a global economic crisis. Such pandemic-inflicted movement control has adversely affected many facets of life and business. The present study aims to investigate the impact of such an unexpected outbreak o...
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| description | The global lockout triggered by coronavirus has made the disease both a health problem and a global economic crisis.
Such pandemic-inflicted movement control has adversely affected many facets of life and business. The present study aims
to investigate the impact of such an unexpected outbreak on stocks in twenty highly infected countries, including the USA,
Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Italy,
Turkey, Colombia, Bangladesh, Germany, France, and Argentina. The descriptive statistics and correlation estimates are
reported negative returns and high volatility in the selected countries' stock indices during the epidemic. Empirical
findings of event study methodology extracted from abnormal returns, average abnormal returns, and cumulative
abnormal returns show significant impacts of coronavirus outbreak on the stock markets. The strict lockdown of cities, the
closure of borders, the implementation of social distancing rules, the collapse in oil prices, the closure of all business
activities, and other health interventions have exacerbated the uncertainty of the situation of the world's stock markets.
The governments and stock exchange authorities should rationalize the financial policies and work together to contain
such unprecedented events on stock markets because individual policy by each country may cause further challenging
situations for the global financial market. Moreover, it is also useful to digitize companies and other similar operations to
contain such a type of black swan incident that adversely affects the economies and damages the health system around the
world. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:172682021-08-06T02:24:29Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17268/ Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries Tanveer, Zubair The global lockout triggered by coronavirus has made the disease both a health problem and a global economic crisis. Such pandemic-inflicted movement control has adversely affected many facets of life and business. The present study aims to investigate the impact of such an unexpected outbreak on stocks in twenty highly infected countries, including the USA, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Turkey, Colombia, Bangladesh, Germany, France, and Argentina. The descriptive statistics and correlation estimates are reported negative returns and high volatility in the selected countries' stock indices during the epidemic. Empirical findings of event study methodology extracted from abnormal returns, average abnormal returns, and cumulative abnormal returns show significant impacts of coronavirus outbreak on the stock markets. The strict lockdown of cities, the closure of borders, the implementation of social distancing rules, the collapse in oil prices, the closure of all business activities, and other health interventions have exacerbated the uncertainty of the situation of the world's stock markets. The governments and stock exchange authorities should rationalize the financial policies and work together to contain such unprecedented events on stock markets because individual policy by each country may cause further challenging situations for the global financial market. Moreover, it is also useful to digitize companies and other similar operations to contain such a type of black swan incident that adversely affects the economies and damages the health system around the world. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17268/1/jeko_55%281%29-1.pdf Tanveer, Zubair (2021) Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 55 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0127-1962 https://www.ukm.my/fep/jem/content/2021-1.html |
| spellingShingle | Tanveer, Zubair Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
| title | Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
| title_full | Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
| title_fullStr | Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
| title_short | Event analysis of the COVID-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
| title_sort | event analysis of the covid-19: evidence from the stock markets of twenty highly infected countries |
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