Table 3.
COVID-19 new case announcements and financial volatility – robustness results.
RLS approach | Model 1 – Global | Model 2 – US | ||
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Naïve | Control | Naïve | Control | |
COVID-19t-1 | 0.108*** [0.003] |
0.108*** [0.003] |
0.070*** [0.002] |
0.070*** [0.002] |
EPU t-1 | 0.003 [0.012] |
0.011 [0.018] |
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c | 2.879*** [0.040] |
2.860*** [0.070] |
3.387*** [0.021] |
3.325*** [0.087] |
R2 | 0.564 | 0.578 | 0.372 | 0.373 |
Notes: (i) 10%, 5% and 1% level of significance is denoted by *, ** and *** respectively; (ii) COVID-19 is associated with the new reported cases.