China Finance Review International: Volume 11 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Shaun Shuxun Wang, Ming-hua Hsieh

The COVID-19 pandemic and sovereign credit risk

Wei-Fong Pan, Xinjie Wang, Ge Wu, Weike Xu

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads using a large sample of…

Epidemics and Chinese firms' stock returns: is COVID-19 different?

Quang Thi Thieu Nguyen, Dao Le Trang Anh, Christopher Gan

This study investigates the Chinese stocks' returns during different epidemic periods to assess their effects on firms' market performance.

Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on risk transmission between googling investor’s sentiment, the Chinese stock and bond markets

Taicir Mezghani, Mouna Boujelbène, Mariam Elbayar

The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether the investors' behavior under optimistic (pessimistic) conditions has an impact on risk transmission between the Chinese…

Ex-ante risk management and financial stability during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of Vietnamese firms

Lan Thi Mai Nguyen, Phi Hoang Dinh

The authors investigate whether firms can ensure their financial stability during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by having ex-ante risk management.

How can an economic scenario generation model cope with abrupt changes in financial markets?

Yi-Hsi Lee, Ming-Hua Hsieh, Weiyu Kuo, Chenghsien Jason Tsai

It is quite possible that financial institutions including life insurance companies would encounter turbulent situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic before policies mature…

Government support for SMEs in response to COVID-19: theoretical model using Wang transform

Shaun Shuxun Wang, Jing Rong Goh, Didier Sornette, He Wang, Esther Ying Yang

Many governments are taking measures in support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper presents a…