COVID Asymmetric Impact on the Risk Premium of Developed and Emerging Countries’ Stock Markets

José Antonio Núñez-Mora, Roberto Santillán-Salgado () and Mario Iván Contreras-Valdez
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José Antonio Núñez-Mora: EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City 01389, Mexico
Mario Iván Contreras-Valdez: Economics Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City 52919, Mexico

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-36

Abstract: We estimated the stock market risk premium during the COVID-19 pandemic with a GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M)(1,1) model. The analysis then explored the presence of regime changes using a two-regime Markov-Switching GARCH (MS GARCH)(1,1) model. The sample we used included the stock market indexes of nine countries from three geographical regions, including: North America (Canada, USA, and Mexico), South America (Brazil and Argentina), and Asia (Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore), over two periods: (a) pre-COVID (from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2019); and (b) COVID (from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021). Our GARCH-M(1,1) estimation results indicate that the more developed countries’ stock markets experienced an important increase in their risk premium during the COVID period, likely explained by the massive government anticyclical policies. By contrast, developing countries’ stock markets, particularly in Latin America, experienced a reduction, and in some cases, even a total loss of the risk premium effect. From the perspective of investors and portfolio risk managers, the identification of high and low volatility periods and their estimated probability of occurrence is useful for the characterization of stress scenarios and the design of emerging strategies. For governments and central bankers, the implementation of different policies should respond to the more likely scenarios but should also be prepared to respond to other less likely scenarios. Institutional preparedness to respond to as many different scenarios as may be identified with the use of MS GARCH models can make their interventions more successful. This work presents an objective example of how the use of MS GARCH models may be of use to practitioners in both the financial industry and government. We confirmed that the results of a two-regime MS GARCH model are superior to those obtained from a single-regime model.

Keywords: MS GARCH; risk premium; Generalized Hyperbolic; conditional volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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