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: Received: 20 March 2022 / Approved: 21 March 2022 / Online: 21 March 2022 (09:14:26 CET)
How to cite:
Abimbola, O.; Ogbekile, C.; Oseghale, E. Impact of COVID-19 on Local Markets: An Application of Garch and Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression. Preprints2022, 2022030281. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0281.v1
Abimbola, O.; Ogbekile, C.; Oseghale, E. Impact of COVID-19 on Local Markets: An Application of Garch and Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression. Preprints 2022, 2022030281. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0281.v1
Abimbola, O.; Ogbekile, C.; Oseghale, E. Impact of COVID-19 on Local Markets: An Application of Garch and Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression. Preprints2022, 2022030281. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0281.v1
APA Style
Abimbola, O., Ogbekile, C., & Oseghale, E. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on Local Markets: An Application of Garch and Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0281.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Abimbola, O., Chukwudi Ogbekile and Ehizokhale Oseghale. 2022 "Impact of COVID-19 on Local Markets: An Application of Garch and Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202203.0281.v1
Abstract
COVID-19, a global health crisis, occurred unexpectedly and has led to global transformation over all countries in the world today. While COVID-19 had claimed lives and led to an economic crisis, the impacts on the financial market cannot be overemphasized. Considering the previous financial crisis, which occurred due to poor regulations and unchecked misconduct by financial market stakeholders, COVID-19 is the first to mention an indirect crisis that almost has no direct relationship to the financial system. Thus, this paper explores the impacts of COVID-19 from a stochastic approach on Local markets by applying the GARCH model to measure the level of volatility of two (2) US stock indexes (NASDAQ and NYSE) and a Europe index (EURONEXT). Our results show that volatility existed before COVID-19, but the volatility rate increased after COVID-19, possibly due to the COVID-19 shock. We also explore the Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression (MSDR) model to corroborate our findings. We validated that there is a very high persistent volatility for all the considered local markets at the early stage COVID-19 period.
Keywords
COVID-19; GARCH; ARCH; MSDR; Volatility
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Econometrics and Statistics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
