Table 2.
Total Risks for the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 regime periods.
| Industry | t-statistics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel A: Top 7 industries | ||||
| Petroleum and Natural Gas | 6.04 | 2.12 | 3.92 | 12.47⁎⁎⁎ |
| Restaurants, Hotels, & Lodgings | 3.17 | 0.75 | 2.42 | 10.42⁎⁎⁎ |
| Coal | 6.48 | 4.10 | 2.39 | 11.98⁎⁎⁎ |
| Recreation (Games and Entertainments) | 4.51 | 2.70 | 1.81 | 10.71⁎⁎⁎ |
| Apparel | 3.49 | 1.72 | 1.77 | 10.00⁎⁎⁎ |
| Construction & Construction Materials | 3.13 | 1.37 | 1.75 | 10.48⁎⁎⁎ |
| Aircraft, Ships, and Railroad Equipment | 3.40 | 1.70 | 1.70 | 10.25⁎⁎⁎ |
| Panel B: Bottom 7 industries | ||||
| Tele-com & Broadcasting | 1.96 | 0.82 | 1.14 | 10.68⁎⁎⁎ |
| Tobacco | 3.10 | 2.02 | 1.09 | 11.29⁎⁎⁎ |
| Personal and Business Services | 2.62 | 1.61 | 1.01 | 10.74⁎⁎⁎ |
| Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical Products | 2.00 | 1.02 | 0.97 | 10.84⁎⁎⁎ |
| Business Equipment | 2.73 | 1.78 | 0.95 | 10.62⁎⁎⁎ |
| Beer & Liquor | 1.53 | 0.82 | 0.71 | 11.03⁎⁎⁎ |
| Food Production | 1.37 | 0.67 | 0.70 | 11.28⁎⁎⁎ |
| SP500 Index | 1.91 | 0.87 | 1.04 | 11.46⁎⁎⁎ |
This table reports means of total risks for pre-covid-19 sample period and COVID-19 sample period, and mean differences in total risks between two sample periods. Panel (a) shows top 7 industries among 30 industries, which have higher mean differences between two sample periods. Panel (b) shows bottom 7 industries have lower mean differences between two sample periods.
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.10.