In this paper, we investigate the spill-over of sovereign rating changes into the corporate sector across 34 countries, with a primary focus on the relative effects of positive and negative events. Positive or negative bias of such spill-overs could impact the relative speed and depth of...

This paper examines the causal relationship between global stock market performance and Google search volume index (SVI) surrounding the disastrous event of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Based on 6,106 stock index-day observations of 71 countries during the period from 1 January 2020 to...