Gold, bonds, and epidemics : a safe haven study

Choudhury, Tonmoy and Kinateder, Harald and Neupane, Biwesh (2022) Gold, bonds, and epidemics : a safe haven study. Finance Research Letters, 48. 102978. ISSN 1544-6123 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102978)

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the question whether gold and sovereign bonds are a safe haven during epidemics. We study the effectiveness as safe haven during the epidemics caused by SARS, Ebola, Zika, Swine Flu, and COVID-19. To this end, this study employs a DCC-GARCH model to analyze the conditional correlations between daily returns of S&P 500 and MSCI Emerging Markets Index with gold and the major sovereign bonds. Our results show that gold is a weak safe haven for stock market investors during the epidemics, and U.S. treasuries are the safest option, followed by Japanese sovereign bonds.

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Choudhury, Tonmoy, Kinateder, Harald and Neupane, Biwesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7918-0259;
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