Abstract:This study explores the association of novel COVID-19 with the dominant financial assets, global uncertainty, commodity prices, and stock markets of the top ten corona-affected countries. We employ a wavelet coherence technique to unearth this linkage using daily data of COVID-19 deaths and reported cases from 1 January 2020 until 26 February 2021. The study finds a weak coherence between COVID-19 and global uncertainty variables in the short and medium term, while a strong positive correlation has been witnes… Show more
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