Stock Market Response to Covid-19, Containment Measures and Stabilization Policies – The Case of Europe

Policymakers imposed constraints on public life in order to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, fiscal and monetary policy implemented a large range of of expansionary measures to limit the economic con- sequences of the pandemic and stimulate the recovery. In this paper, we assess the...

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Xuất bản năm:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 08-2022)
Những tác giả chính: Klose, Jens, Tillmann, Peter
Định dạng: Bài viết
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2022
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Tóm tắt:Policymakers imposed constraints on public life in order to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, fiscal and monetary policy implemented a large range of of expansionary measures to limit the economic con- sequences of the pandemic and stimulate the recovery. In this paper, we assess the response of the equity market as a high-frequency indicator of economic activity to containment and stabilization policies for 29 European economies. We construct indicators of containment and stabilization policies and estimate a range of panel VAR models. The main results are threefold: First, we find that stock markets are highly responsive to containment and stabilization policies. We show that domestic fiscal policy as well as monetary policy support the recovery as reflected in the stock market. Second, expansionary fiscal pol- icy conducted at the European level reduces rather raises stock prices. Third, we estimate the model over subsamples and show that the counter-intuitive stock market response to EU policies is driven by the responses in medium- and high-debt countries. These countries' stock markets are also particularly susceptible to monetary policy announcements.
Mô tả vật lý:27 Seiten
số ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0717