The Impact of Covid-19 on Index Returns of the Country: International Testament

ABSTRACT

This study analyse the impact of Covid-19 on Index returns of the Country. For this study four countries are taken including two developed countries i.e. USA and Germany, two developing countries i.e. India, China for the time period between 1st March - 30th October 2020. This time period reflects the first wave of covid-19 pandemic and how economy affected due to corona outbreaks on different countries. It also examines the impact of confirmed cases and recovers case on index return with the help of regression analysis. In routine data of confirmed cases and recovered case study analyse their impact on index returns and it was found that both the variables are having their impact on index returns of the particular Country. Overall, our study recommends that stock market is the most sensible market and due to that index returns of the particular country also affected highly in response to covid-19 infection. It may differ depending upon the time due to covid-19 outbreaks. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.