Temporal changes in global stock markets during COVID-19: an analysis of dynamic networks
China Finance Review International
ISSN: 2044-1398
Article publication date: 7 February 2022
Issue publication date: 6 February 2023
Abstract
Purpose
COVID-19 evolved from a local health crisis to a pandemic and affected countries worldwide accordingly. Similarly, the impacts of the pandemic on the performance of global stock markets could be time-varying. This study applies a dynamic network analysis approaches to evaluate the evolution over time of the impact of COVID-19 on the stock markets' network.
Design/methodology/approach
Daily closing prices of 55 global stock markets from August 1, 2019 to September 10, 2020 were retrieved. This sample period was further divided into nine subsample periods for dynamic analysis purpose. Distance matrix based on long-range correlations was calculated, using rolling window's length of 100 trading days, rolled forward at an interval of one month's working days. These distance matrices than used to construct nine minimum spanning trees (MSTs). Network characteristics were figured out, community detection and network rewiring techniques were also used for extracting meaningful from these MSTs.
Findings
The findings are, with the evolution of COVID-19, a change in co-movements amongst stock markets' indices occurred. On the 100th day from the date of reporting of the first cluster of cases, the co-movement amongst the stock markets become 100% positively correlated. However, the international investor can still get better portfolio performance with such temporal correlation structure either avoiding risk or pursuing profits. A little change is observed in the importance of authoritative node; however, this central node changed multiple times with change of epicenters. During COVID-19 substantial clustering and less stable network structure is observed.
Originality/value
It is confirmed that this work is original and has been neither published elsewhere, nor it is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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Acknowledgements
Availability of data and materials: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Authors' contributions: K.Z. and F.A. developed the theoretical formalism, collected the data and wrote the manuscript. Y.T.M. analyzed the data and shape the research. P.F. contributed to preparation of final version and supervised the project. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.
Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Citation
Zaheer, K., Aslam, F., Tariq Mohmand, Y. and Ferreira, P. (2023), "Temporal changes in global stock markets during COVID-19: an analysis of dynamic networks", China Finance Review International, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 23-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/CFRI-07-2021-0137
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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