COVID-19's Impact on Ghana's Stock Market. Analysis and Predictions with ARIMA and EGARCH Models

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: A, University of Cape Coast (School of Economics), course: Economics, language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock markets, with a specific focus on the Ghanaian Stock Exchange. Using the ARIMA and EGARCH models, this study explores the influence of COVID-19 on stock market volatility, based on daily data from the Ghana Stock Exchange Composite Index from October 2018 to August 2020.