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Asymmetric Impact of COVID-19 on China's Stock Market Volatility - Media Effect or Fact?

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  • Xin Li

    (Institute of Finance and Development School of Economics and School of Finance, Nankai University, Tianjin, China)

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This study examines the asymmetric effects of positive and negative changes in media attention to COVID-19 and daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases on China’s stock market volatility by utilizing the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model. Empirical results show that media attention has a pronounced effect on China’s stock market volatility and this effect is greater than the direct impact of COVID-19. Finally, several important policy implications arise from these findings.

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  • Xin Li, 2021. "Asymmetric Impact of COVID-19 on China's Stock Market Volatility - Media Effect or Fact?," Asian Economics Letters, Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association, vol. 2(4), pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:ayb:jrnael:47
    DOI: 2021/10/06
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