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FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101852
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COVID-19 pandemic; Flight-to-quality; Stock-bond returns correlation; Google trends; Wavelets; Panel regression
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The study found that flight-to-quality episodes occurred simultaneously across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering diversification options to investors.
We investigate the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic on the time-varying correlation between stock and bond returns. Using daily data on bond and stock returns for ten countries, covering Europe, Asia, US and Australia regions, we identify flight-to-quality episodes during the COVID-19 global pandemic crisis employing both a panel data specification and a wavelet analysis. Our empirical results demonstrate that flights occur simultaneously across countries and are not country-specific events. This finding suggests that the two largest asset classes offered diversification to investors during the recent crisis, when they actually needed it the most.
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