Abstract
Covid-19, which emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and affected the whole world, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected both the economic and financial systems in the countries where it started to spread. In this study, it is aimed to examine the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and indicators such as gold, ISE 100 Index, Bitcoin, Dollar, Euro, interest, oil and VIX Index, which represent various financial markets, in terms of Turkey. Analysis was conducted using daily data for the period between March 11, 2020, when the first Covid-19 case was seen in Turkey, and July 31, 2021, and Johansen co-integration and causality tests based on VECM. The cointegration analysis results show that the variables move together in the long run. As a result of the long-term causality analysis, a long-term causality relationship has been determined in the models in which Gold, Bitcoin, interest and oil variables are dependent variables. However, as a result of short-term causality analysis, it has been found that there is unidirectional causality from Euro and interest to ISE; from Dollar and Euro to Bitcoin; from gold, Dollar and Euro to interest; from dollar, euro, interest and case to oil; from gold, Bitcoin, Dollar and Euro to case; from interest to VIX. In addition, causality analysis also shows that there is a bidirectional causality relationship between ISE and Dollar.