COVID-19 Vaccination and Stock Markets Performance: Empirical Evidence from African Countries

Jamiu Olamilekan Badmus; Ibraheem Monday Ojelade

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COVID-19 Vaccination and Stock Markets Performance: Empirical Evidence from African Countries

Jamiu Olamilekan Badmus, Ibraheem Monday Ojelade

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The unprecedented shock posed by the current pandemic on the global economy has resulted in continuous efforts by the governments, health practitioners, and policymakers to abate it, which led to the implementation of several policy responses including the COVID-19 vaccination to curb the spread, severity, and recorded cases of the pandemic. Thus, this study evaluates the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on stock markets performance of selected African countries. The analysis of the study utilizes two variants of COVID-19 vaccination indicator, namely a dummy variable and a vaccine index. The regression model shows that the COVID-19 vaccination using a dummy variable, significantly improves the returns of stock markets in Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire, and Zambia. However, the vaccine index reveals significant positive impact of vaccination on the stock market returns in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition, the wavelet coherence analysis is utilized to examine the relationship between the variables over time and frequency domain spectrum. The result shows that the COVID-19 vaccination proxy with vaccine index significantly granger causes the stock market of the selected countries except Tunisia. The findings of the study have policy implications on portfolio management and diversification as well as government policy responses to the global pandemic.

Published in	International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 11, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijber.20221105.11
Page(s)	264-275
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COVID-19 Vaccination, Stock Markets, Vaccine Index, Government Policy Response

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Jamiu Olamilekan Badmus

Department of Economics, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode, Nigeria
Ibraheem Monday Ojelade

Department of Computer Science, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee

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