More than one year after the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared, the profit performance among large companies worldwide has been bifurcating between 1/3 of companies bouncing forward with higher profit trajectory as per before the crisis while the other firms are continuing to suffer a...

COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks have led many countries to impose travel restrictions and movement controls. In Malaysia, the small business sector is one of the most directly affected by the movement's control order. In fact, the impact is more significant among micro-enterprises than its larger...

This study analyzes the relationship between COVID-19 related fear and short-term IPO performance. Though the average market-adjusted initial return of IPOs in the year 2020 is higher than that of the last four decades, it decreases if fear of pandemic increases. The evidence is robust when we...