Did the Market Indices of G7 Countries Recover Evenly from the Start of COVID-19 (January 2020) Through December 2021?

ABSTRACT

(2021) opined that the ability of businesses to continue to adjust to the new ways of doing business would also affect the progress in the recovery of the stock market indices. The reason that this study focuses on the stock market indices of G7 countries is that the economies of G7 countries account for 32 to 46 percent of the global gross domestic product (France Diplomacy, 2019). According to their report, the pandemic spread rapidly in all of the continents affecting the social and the economic environment. The fourth approach toward studying COVID-19 impact on stock market performance is from the perspective of effective government policies worldwide during this period.