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Table 1 Descriptive statistics and preliminary tests on the data

From: Dynamic connectedness between stock markets in the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic: does economic policy uncertainty matter?

 

China

France

Germany

Italy

Russia

Spain

UK

U.S

Mean

0.002

0.034

0.029

0.030

0.032

0.000

0.010

0.035

Variance

2.193

1.546

1.649

2.082

3.398

1.739

1.129

1.375

Skewness

−1.139***

−1.344***

−0.871***

−2.126***

−0.849***

−2.202***

−0.988***

−1.087***

Kurtosis

7.036***

15.402***

14.281***

26.074***

8.802***

25.231***

17.225***

24.133***

JB p value

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

ERS

−11.138***

−5.272***

−10.716***

−8.481***

−2.908***

−3.252***

−3.708***

−3.031***

ADF

−34.934***

−24.170***

−23.615***

−24.716***

−37.991***

−24.211***

−36.264***

−10.991***

PP

−34.937***

−36.582***

−36.375***

−39.106***

−38.052***

−37.805***

−36.263***

−43.869***

Q(20)

22.303***

16.165*

14.064

27.328***

13.041

21.215***

26.420***

116.391***

Q2(20)

101.408***

20.766**

98.182***

1.716

188.782***

6.79

70.659***

301.223***

LM(20)

119.824***

193.533***

236.167***

39.210***

208.550***

89.173***

237.360***

480.568***

Correlation matrix

China

1

       

France

0.219

1

      

Germany

0.207

0.942

1

     

Italy

0.15

0.866

0.845

1

    

Russia

0.183

0.552

0.515

0.493

1

   

Spain

0.179

0.889

0.851

0.888

0.521

1

  

UK

0.223

0.866

0.829

0.753

0.583

0.784

1

 

US

0.179

0.605

0.583

0.551

0.384

0.581

0.601

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  1. This table reports the descriptive statistics of the considered stock market returns. J.B. is the Jarque–Bera normality test statistics. ERP, ADF, and PP denote the Elliot-Rothenberg-Stock, Augmented Dicky-Fuller, and Phillip-Perron unit root test, respectively. Q(10) and Q2(10) are the Ljung-Box tests for 20th order serial correlations for returns and squared returns, respectively. L.M. (20) is the L.M. heteroscedasticity test at order 20. (***), (**), and (*) indicate the statistical significance, respectively, at 1%, 5%, and 10% levels