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Table 7 The different role of EPU during the pandemic

From: Preventing crash in stock market: The role of economic policy uncertainty during COVID-19

Variables

(1)

(2)

Intercept

0.0009

(0.4612)

0.0009

(0.4653)

D_epid

 − 0.0011

(− 0.2232)

0.0007

(0.1365)

Skew(t−1)

0.1999***

(6.2173)

0.1926***

(5.9408)

rCases(t−1)

 − 0.0227***

(− 2.7921)

 − 0.0324***

(− 3.2291)

rCases(t−2)

 

 − 0.0165

(− 1.64)

rEPU(t)

 − 0.0062

(− 1.5967)

 − 0.0062

(− 1.5901)

D_epid* rEPU(t)

 − 0.0345**

(− 2.3417)

 − 0.0340**

(− 2.3105)

N

917

917

R2

0.0609

0.0637

Adj-R2

0.0557

0.0575

AIC

 − 2.9536

 − 2.9544

SC

 − 2.9220

 − 2.9176

  1. ***, **, * represent statistical significance at 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively. The t-statistics are presented in the brackets. We set the lag length of each variable based on the previous results in Table 6