Chasing for information during the COVID-19 panic: The role of Google search on global stock market

被引：7

作者：

Padungsaksawasdi, Chaiyuth ^{[1
]}

Treepongkaruna, Sirimon ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Thammasat Univ, Thammasat Business Sch, Dept Finance, Bangkok, Thailand

[2] Univ Western Australia, UWA Business Sch, Crawley, Australia

[3] Chulalongkorn Univ, Sasin Sch Management, Res Unit Sustainabil Finance & Capital Market Dev, Bangkok, Thailand

来源：

COGENT ECONOMICS & FINANCE | 2021年 / 9卷 / 01期

关键词：

Investor attention; Google Search volume index; Behavioral finance; COVID-19; Stock market performance; INVESTOR ATTENTION;

D O I：

10.1080/23322039.2021.1930669

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper examines the causal relationship between global stock market performance and Google search volume index (SVI) surrounding the disastrous event of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Based on 6,106 stock index-day observations of 71 countries during the period from 1 January 2020 to 29 May 2020, we find that both the SVI and the growth in confirmed cases lower the global stock market returns. Consistent with the information discovery theory, we find when the confirmed cases increase, retail investors search for more information, improving their returns on stock indices during the outbreak. Finally, our further instrumental-variable analysis shows that our results are unlikely confounded by endogeneity.

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