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Short term response of Chinese stock markets to the outbreak of COVID-19

HaiYue Liu, Yile Wang, Dongmei He and Cangyu Wang

Applied Economics, 2020, vol. 52, issue 53, 5859-5872

Abstract: China’s economy and the Asian stock markets have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. This article used an event study method to calculate the abnormal returns (AR) in the 10 trading days following the outbreak, from which it was found that both the Chinese and Asian stock markets had significantly declined, with the cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) remaining negative in all the examined event window periods. This article also analysed the different industry index responses to the epidemic, from which it was found that the pharmaceutical manufacturing, software and IT services both had positive CAR, while transportation, lodging and catering had negative CAR during the event window. These results reflected the investors’ expectations for the different industries and the economy as a whole under the outbreak of the contagious coronavirus.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2020.1776837

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