Research Article

Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets

Volume: 7 Number: 1 April 22, 2021
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Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets

Abstract

This study examines investor sentiment which may trigger contagion in financial markets during the recent Covid-19 outbreak within a DCC-GARCH model. The results show that most of the time-varying correlations have risen after the Covid-19 outbreak until the WHO declared the disease as a global pandemic and most of the rise in correlations occurs within each group of countries/regions where the least and the most deaths took place. There is evidence of contagion in most cases. Overall, investor sentiment seems to give rise to contagion as the correlations between stock markets have increased during the global Covid-19 pandemic.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Finance

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 22, 2021

Submission Date

February 4, 2021

Acceptance Date

April 14, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 7 Number: 1

APA
Buğan, M. F. (2021). Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets. Uluslararası Ekonomi Ve Yenilik Dergisi, 7(1), 169-182. https://doi.org/10.20979/ueyd.874254
AMA
1.Buğan MF. Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets. UEYD. 2021;7(1):169-182. doi:10.20979/ueyd.874254
Chicago
Buğan, Mehmet Fatih. 2021. “Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets”. Uluslararası Ekonomi Ve Yenilik Dergisi 7 (1): 169-82. https://doi.org/10.20979/ueyd.874254.
EndNote
Buğan MF (April 1, 2021) Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets. Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Yenilik Dergisi 7 1 169–182.
IEEE
[1]M. F. Buğan, “Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets”, UEYD, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 169–182, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.20979/ueyd.874254.
ISNAD
Buğan, Mehmet Fatih. “Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets”. Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Yenilik Dergisi 7/1 (April 1, 2021): 169-182. https://doi.org/10.20979/ueyd.874254.
JAMA
1.Buğan MF. Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets. UEYD. 2021;7:169–182.
MLA
Buğan, Mehmet Fatih. “Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets”. Uluslararası Ekonomi Ve Yenilik Dergisi, vol. 7, no. 1, Apr. 2021, pp. 169-82, doi:10.20979/ueyd.874254.
Vancouver
1.Mehmet Fatih Buğan. Covid-19, Investor Sentiment and Contagion Across Stock Markets. UEYD. 2021 Apr. 1;7(1):169-82. doi:10.20979/ueyd.874254

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