“…Second, we look at the governments' responses to the corona crisis and examine their possible impacts on bank returns by employing fixed effect panel regression with interaction effects. Prior research focuses on the impact of COVID-19 policy regulations on other sectors such as energy commodities (Czech & Wielechowski, 2021), travel, tourism, leisure stock market (Wang, Zhang, Gao, & Yang, 2021; Yang, Mao, & Wen, 2021), and local food prices (Dietrich, Giuffrida, Martorano, & Schmerzeck, 2022) rather than banks.…”