IMPACT OF PANDEMIC COVID-19’S ON NATIONAL CURRENCY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS: AN ANALYSIS ON DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
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Coronavirus outbreak which started as an epidemic in Wuhan, China and soon transformed into a pandemic in the first quarter of 2020 is about to bring a profound stagnation to many national economies. In the study, to understand the effects of the covid-19 pandemic on national currency and financial markets from the perspective of developing and developing countries, daily data including the stock market closing prices, exchange rate and WTI gross oil prices of the effects of COVID-19 in the period of March 10, 2020 and May 9, 2020 for developing and developed economies were used. China, South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey are chosen to represent the developing world and Italy, France, Germany, Spain and England represent the developed world. Logarithms of all variables were taken and in the econometric application part, vector autoregression model was used. At the end of the study, it was determined that the number of Covid-19 cases did not affect exchange rates, but had an effect on stock prices in developing economies. As a result, It has been determined that developing economies affect more than developed economies from pandemic.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Ekonomi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
29 Kasım 2021
Gönderilme Tarihi
19 Ocak 2021
Kabul Tarihi
28 Ağustos 2021
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2021 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 22