Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...

This study aims to examine the effect of World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 as a global pandemic on the stock market returns of the five largest Asian stock markets using event study analysis. Results obtained from this research shows that the WHO announcement had a significant...