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This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...
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While many studies analyze the impact of scheduled macroeconomic announcements on equity market volatility, few focus on the impact on option implied volatilities. In this study, we examine the link between German and U.S. macroeconomic events and the implied volatility indices VDAX and VIX. We...
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The period of the global financial crisis can be characterized by the spillover of negative innovations among stock markets worldwide. Stock markets in Central Europe were not excluded as they are not isolated from global stock markets. Recently published scientific studies dealing with this...
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This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...
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.5 million cases have been reported, out of which 4.03 million resulted into deaths as on July 10, 2021. India is also badly … fell in poverty due to deep recession triggered by the pandemic. India’s real GDP during 2020-21 fell by 7.3% as compared … first lockdown in India, it closed at 26,674.03 which, within a year rose up to 49,180.31, even though the pandemic kept …
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control of domestic crude oil prices in India. The paper outcomes disclose that the oil price volatility index (OPVI) changes …
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This paper identifies robust determinants of US stock price movements in the economic shadow of the COVID-19 crisis and in the presence of model uncertainty, using several influential factors highlighted in relevant research. Our investigation performs an extreme bounds analysis (EBA), a global...
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We examine stock market risk surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic at the industry level. We find that low-beta industries experienced a significant increase in relative risk at the worst possible time. Shocks to market beta were not accompanied by offsetting changes in loadings on other factors,...
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We examine the impact of COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic on global equity markets by constructing novel infection indices. Our results show that the impact of prompt and large-scale policy interventions is ambiguous yet statistically significant. However, in this equivocality, the impact of global...
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