Research Article

Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange

Volume: 6 Number: 2 December 30, 2021
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Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to look into the impact of the COVID-19 on the Rwanda Stock Exchange, which is of interest to a variety of financial institutions and investors. We conducted an empirical analysis of the daily stock returns data from January 4th, 2020 to April 12th, 2021 of four Rwanda Stock Exchange-listed companies. The AR, MA, ARIMA, and ARCH models were applied one after another. To verify the series stationarity, we checked the time series stationarity before building an ARIMA model. The ARIMA model fit the data of all companies well, but using the Ljung-Box test, we failed to reject the null hypothesis and concluded that there are no ARCH effects present for BLR, KCB, and EQRY companies, despite the fact that the p-value of test was less than 0.05 for BOK data, indicating the ARCH effect. The results show that the AR model is adequate and can be used to model data from BLR, KCB, and EQTY because there is no serial correlation and no ARCH effect depicted in the data, and the only data of BOK can be modelled using the ARCH model and the result shows that alpha 1 is 1.000e+00 which is very high and this indicates that the BOK market is jumpy (unstable).

Keywords

Supporting Institution

Rwanda Stock Exchange website

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Finance

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 30, 2021

Submission Date

June 2, 2021

Acceptance Date

August 23, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 6 Number: 2

APA
Sıngırankabo, E., Hakızımana, J. M. V., & Hakızakubana Ngoboka, J. P. (2021). Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy, 6(2), 140-150. https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB
AMA
1.Sıngırankabo E, Hakızımana JMV, Hakızakubana Ngoboka JP. Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange. JOEEP. 2021;6(2):140-150. https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB
Chicago
Sıngırankabo, Edouard, Jean Marie Vianney Hakızımana, and Jean Paul Hakızakubana Ngoboka. 2021. “Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange”. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy 6 (2): 140-50. https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB.
EndNote
Sıngırankabo E, Hakızımana JMV, Hakızakubana Ngoboka JP (December 1, 2021) Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy 6 2 140–150.
IEEE
[1]E. Sıngırankabo, J. M. V. Hakızımana, and J. P. Hakızakubana Ngoboka, “Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange”, JOEEP, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 140–150, Dec. 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB
ISNAD
Sıngırankabo, Edouard - Hakızımana, Jean Marie Vianney - Hakızakubana Ngoboka, Jean Paul. “Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange”. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy 6/2 (December 1, 2021): 140-150. https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB.
JAMA
1.Sıngırankabo E, Hakızımana JMV, Hakızakubana Ngoboka JP. Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange. JOEEP. 2021;6:140–150.
MLA
Sıngırankabo, Edouard, et al. “Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange”. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy, vol. 6, no. 2, Dec. 2021, pp. 140-5, https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB.
Vancouver
1.Edouard Sıngırankabo, Jean Marie Vianney Hakızımana, Jean Paul Hakızakubana Ngoboka. Stock Market Volatility Towards COVID-19 Drawbacks: Case of Rwanda Stock Exchange. JOEEP [Internet]. 2021 Dec. 1;6(2):140-5. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA94YE77RB

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