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Published on: November 10, 2023
Fear of the coronavirus and the stock markets
Štefan Lyócsa1,2,3, Eduard Baumöhl4,5, Tomáš Výrost4,5
1Faculty of Management, University of Presov, Presov 080 01, Slovakia.
Abstract:
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, stock markets around the world have experienced unprecedented declines amid high uncertainty. In this paper, we use Google search volume activity as a gauge of panic and fear. The chosen search terms are specific to the coronavirus crisis and correspond to phrases related to nonpharmaceutical intervention policies to fight physical contagion. We show that during this period, fear of the coronavirus - manifested as excess search volume - represents a timely and valuable data source for forecasting stock price variation around the world.
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