Author(s): Costas Siriopoulos
The paper summarizes some interesting results about financial markets and the covid-19 pandemic from recently published papers. I especially focus on risk/volatility and the contagion effects/spillovers in the financial markets due to covid-19 pandemic. Most literature primarily focused on government responses towards the pandemic, supply chain management, financial market’s reaction, and tourism management, and few if any in financial markets. This short paper aims to fill this gap providing a first assessment of the covid-19 pandemic and its impact in the financial markets.