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An interpretable system for predicting the impact of COVID-19 government interventions on stock market sectors

Cai Yang, Mohammad Abedin, Hongwei Zhang, Futian Weng, Petr Hajek

Annals of Operations Research

Swansea University Author: Mohammad Abedin

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Evaluating and understanding the financial impacts of COVID-19 has emerged as an urgent research agenda. Nevertheless, the impacts of government interventions on stock markets remain poorly understood. This study explores, for the first time, the impact of COVID-19 related government intervention po...

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Published in: Annals of Operations Research
ISSN: 0254-5330 1572-9338
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64222
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Abstract: Evaluating and understanding the financial impacts of COVID-19 has emerged as an urgent research agenda. Nevertheless, the impacts of government interventions on stock markets remain poorly understood. This study explores, for the first time, the impact of COVID-19 related government intervention policies on different stock market sectors using explainable machine learning-based prediction models. The empirical findings suggest that the LightGBM model provides excellent prediction accuracy while preserving computationally efficient and easy explainability of the model. We also find that COVID-19 government interventions are better predictors of stock market volatility than stock market returns. We further show that the observed effects of government intervention on the volatility and returns of ten stock market sectors are heterogeneous and asymmetrical. Our findings have important implications for policymakers and investors in terms of promoting balance and sustaining prosperity across industry sectors through government interventions.
Keywords: COVID-19, Government interventions, Stock market, SHapley Additive exPlanations
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences