... and stakeholders to address some of the pressing concerns. Originality/value This paper examines the role of the COVID-19 health crisis in the association between ESG activities and bank lending across countries. Anh-Tuan Le can be contacted at: tuanla@ueh.edu.vn Conflict of interest...

...Jiawei Wang; Yunjie Wei; Shouyang Wang Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of various markets—national stocks, bulk commodities and green industries—on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Using machine learning...

...Muhammad Kashif; Chen Pinglu; Atta Ullah; Ningyu Qian Purpose This study aims to examine the dynamic effect of FinTech on financial stability, with the moderating role of green finance (GF), its dimensions and mechanisms in the context of the spillover effects of the COVID-19 shock. This study...

...Helong Li; Huiqiong Chen; Guanglong Xu; Weiguo Zhang Purpose According to the Government Response tracker (oxCGRT) index, the overall government response, stringency, economic support, containment and health policies to COVID-19 from January 2020 to December 2022. The main objective of this paper...

... the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The authors used the methodologies proposed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) and the wavelet approach. Findings The wavelet coherence results show that during the COVID-19 period, there was a strong co-movement among value at risk and each selected...

...Muhammad Aftab; Inzamam Ul Haq; Mohamed Albaity Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has led to global economic policy uncertainty, which has increased the need to investigate ways to mitigate the uncertainty. This study aims to examine the potential of cryptocurrencies as a hedge and safe haven avenue...

..., against the Chinese economic and trade policy uncertainty, the US stock market indexes show both hedging properties across the period and safe-haven during COVID-19 and Russia–Ukraine crises. In contrast, among the Chinese stock markets, only DJShenzhen and DJShanghai stock indices might provide strong...

...Kashif Zaheer; Faheem Aslam; Yasir Tariq Mohmand; Paulo Ferreira Purpose COVID-19 evolved from a local health crisis to a pandemic and affected countries worldwide accordingly. Similarly, the impacts of the pandemic on the performance of global stock markets could be time-varying. This study...

...Mutaju Isaack Marobhe Purpose This article examines the susceptibility of cryptocurrencies to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced panic in comparison with major stock indices. Design/methodology/approach The author employs the Bayesian structural vector autoregression to examine...

... aims to attempt to shed light on this debate with empirical observations on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected household saving decisions. Design/methodology/approach The two waves of the survey data allowed us to investigate both instantaneous and ongoing effects of Covid-19 on household...

...Shaun Shuxun Wang; Jing Rong Goh; Didier Sornette; He Wang; Esther Ying Yang Purpose Many governments are taking measures in support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper presents a theoretical model for evaluating various...

... the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a new measure of the investor's sentiment based on Google trend to construct a Chinese investor's sentiment index and a quantile causal approach to examine the causal relationship between googling investor's sentiment and the Chinese...

... firms listed on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges during periods of SARS, H5N1, H7N9 and COVID-19 Findings Epidemics' effect on firms' stock returns is persistent up to 10 days after the event dates. Although the impact varies with types and development of the disease, most firms experience...

...Wei-Fong Pan; Xinjie Wang; Ge Wu; Weike Xu Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads using a large sample of countries. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors...