Preventing crash in stock market: The role of economic policy uncertainty during COVID-19

Abstract This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the crash risk of US stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we use the GARCH-S (GARCH with skewness) model to estimate daily skewness as a proxy for the stock market crash risk. The empirical results...

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Main Authors: Peng-Fei Dai, Xiong Xiong, Zhifeng Liu, Toan Luu Duc Huynh, Jianjun Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-04-01
Series:Financial Innovation
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-021-00248-y