pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic … greatly-from an 80 percent rise (relative to January 2020) in two-year implied volatility on the S&P 500 to a 20-fold rise in … forecaster disagreement about UK growth. Third, time paths also differ: implied volatility rose rapidly from late February and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated both the risk and volatility of energy companies. Can mass vaccinations restore … 2020 to April 2021. We document that vaccination programs assist in decreasing the volatility of energy stocks around the … world. The drop in volatility is statistically and economically significant and robust to many considerations. The observed …