Breugem, Matthijs; Corvino, Raffaele; Marfè, Roberto; … - 2021
This paper studies the tail risk of US equity markets in advance of the COVID-19 outbreak in February 2020, providing … evidence that financial markets are informative about pandemic risk well in advance of the actual outbreak. Specifically, while … the tail risk of the market index did not respond before the outbreak, we document that the tail risk of less pandemic …