Fear and hope in financial social networks: Evidence from COVID-19 [0.03%]
金融社交网络中的恐惧与希望——来自COVID-19的证据
Mohamed Al Guindy
Mohamed Al Guindy
This paper examines the diffusion of COVID-19 news on social media using a large sample of approximately 45 million tweets. Using textual analysis, I identify tweets containing COVID-19 news, and construct an index representing the intensit...
Roi D Taussig
Roi D Taussig
This study employs a relatively new statistical method to analyze the time-series of US market prices. Specifically, it shows, that during Covid19, the strongest structural breaks happened. Moreover, since 1993 analysts were not able to pre...
Trust and the stock market reaction to lockdown and reopening announcements: A cross-country evidence [0.03%]
信任与股市对封锁和重新开放声明的反应：跨国证据
Lijuan Xie,Mei Wang,Toan Luu Duc Huynh
Lijuan Xie
We conduct a country-level analysis with a sample of 44 countries to examine whether generalised social trust has an impact on the stock market reaction to government announcements of lockdown and reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. We ...
The gender gap in access to finance: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下金融可及性的性别差异问题研究
Nirosha Hewa-Wellalage,Sabri Boubaker,Ahmed Imran Hunjra et al.
Nirosha Hewa-Wellalage et al.
Using gender as a theoretical framework, we analyse the dynamics of debt and equity financing during the COVID-19 pandemic for a cross-country sample of 8,921 private firms. We provide evidence of a slight gender bias in debt financing, wit...
Government power and the value of political connections: Evidence from Covid-19 economic lockdowns [0.03%]
政府权力与政治关系的价值：来自COVID-19经济封锁的证据
Chwee-Ming Tee,Wai-Yan Wong,Chee-Wooi Hooy
Chwee-Ming Tee
The value of political connection is driven by economic power, rather than the political power of the government per se. We examine this with Malaysia's Covid-19 economic lockdowns where the government gained unprecedented economic power. C...
Subramanian Rama Iyer,Betty J Simkins
Subramanian Rama Iyer
This article presents a literature review of the 81 articles accepted in the Finance Research Letters Special Issue titled "COVID-19 and the Economy". The articles are classified into five broad areas (investments and asset pricing, the mac...
Lawrence Kryzanowski,Jinjing Liu,Jie Zhang
Lawrence Kryzanowski
We examine the resilience of Chinese banks during the COVID-19 pandemic by investigating non-performing loan (NPL) ratios. We find that despite the reduction in the growth rate of total bank lending, bank NPL ratios significantly increase d...
Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence [0.03%]
新冠疫情时期社会责任投资(SRI)公司股票的风险变化了吗？国际证据
Janusz Brzeszczyński,Jerzy Gajdka,Piotr Pietraszewski et al.
Janusz Brzeszczyński et al.
In this study, we investigate changes in risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies in the periods before and during the COVID-19 pandemic relying on a broad dataset covering SRI indices from 35 markets analyzed between 2016 a...
Tianxiang Cui,Muhammad Tahir Suleman,Hongwei Zhang
Tianxiang Cui
This paper explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global green bond and conventional assets, including commodity, treasury, stock and clean energy markets, using Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) and Baruník and Křehlík, 2018b spil...
Jinjin Zhang,Jinyu Wu,Yalin Luo et al.
Jinjin Zhang et al.
This paper investigates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on analysts' forecast dispersion. We find that analysts' exposure to the COVID-19 lockdown reduces the dispersion of their forecasts. Along with the forecast dispersion, the number...