“…Finally, the third relevant strand includes the contemporaneous, but exponentially growing, literature on the impact of COVID-19 on financial markets ( Akhtaruzzaman et al., 2020 ; Ashraf, 2020 ; Conlon and McGee, 2020 ; Corbet et al., 2020a , 2020b ; Goodell and Huynh, 2020 ; Ji et al., 2020a , Ji et al., 2020b ; Ramelli and Wagner, 2020 ; Sharif et al., 2020 ; Zaremba et al., 2020 ; Zhang et al., 2020 ) and more specifically, the research examining the impact of COVID-19 on sentiment ( Baker et al., 2020 ; Bouri et al., 2020 ; Buckman et al., 2020 ; Papadamou et al., 2020a ; 2020b ). Goodell (2020) sketches a useful taxonomy of the emergent empirical research on pandemics and finance.…”