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JOURNAL OF ASIAN FINANCE ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 265-275Publisher
KOREA DISTRIBUTION SCIENCE ASSOC
DOI: 10.13106/jafeb.2021.vol8.no5.0265
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COVID-19; Stock Market; Stock Market Remittances; ARDL; Toda-Yamamoto
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The study found that COVID-19 has a negative impact on the stock market in both the long-term and short-term, while remittance has a positive influence on the stock market in the long-term. The directional causality test revealed a unidirectional causal effect between COVID-19 and the stock market.
This study's motivation is to investigate the association between the stock market, remittance, and the pandemic of COVID-19 for the period from March 3, 2020, to December 14, 2020. For evaluating the impact of COVID-19 and remittances on stock market behaviour during the pandemic, the study applies Autoregressive Distributed lagged (ARDL) for magnitudes estimation and directional association through the Toda-Yamamoto causality test. Study findings from ARDL estimation revealed that COVID-19 measured by detecting new cases negatively influences the stock market both in the long-term and short-term. Remittance positively influences the stock market behaviour, particularly in the long-term. Furthermore, the directional causality test disclosed unidirectional causal effects between COVID-19 and the stock market behaviour, which establishes all proxy measures for the equation's stock market. The hypothesis results explain the causal relationship between remittance inflows and the stock market in Bangladesh. The study's application will help policymakers rethink the policies for channelizing remittances for productive investment areas. Furthermore, the study's findings will reinstate the widely perceived notions, which is the critical role of remittance in the economy even though the economy passes through a great pandemic.
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