Research Article

The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Stock Markets’ Statistical Complexity

Table 3

Main statistics for the compound measure of complexity.

MaxMinMeanStandard deviationSkewnessKurtosisJarque–Bera statistic (chi-square distributed with two degrees of freedom)Unit root test of Zivot and Andrews [33] with potential break occurred in both intercept and linear trend

BEL 200.9090.9050.9070.001−0.0702.1027.981 (-value = 0.018)−6.435 {2020/03/16}
IBOVESPA0.8690.8630.8650.0010.6653.26017.747 −4.235 {2020/03/27}
CAC 400.7150.7010.7070.0030.3192.4217.183 (-value = 0.028)−3.885 {2019/11/07}
FTSE 1000.9130.9080.9100.002−0.0771.77914.648 −6.395 {2019/12/17}
DAX PERFORMANCE-INDEX0.9140.9080.9110.0020.1931.87813.600 (-value = 0.001)−6.148 {2019/10/15}
S&P 5000.7090.6900.7010.006−0.2741.61021.576 −4.870 {2019/11/13}
S&P/TSX composite index0.9020.8870.8950.004−0.2062.3116.233 (-value = 0.044)−4.541 {2019/11/07}
HANG SENG INDEX0.8730.8620.8680.0030.0402.3194.547 (-value = 0.103)−2.501 {2020/03/04}
MERVAL0.8650.8570.8610.002−0.2302.4534.932 (-value = 0.085)−2.509 {2020/06/08}
NIKKEI 2250.8660.8600.8630.002−0.0511.64417.870 −4.000 {2019/08/16}

Notes: The Zivot and Andrews [33] test is implemented in R package “urca” [34]. Potential breakpoint is mentioned in {}. Critical values of the test are: 0.01 = −5.57; 0.05 = −5.08; and 0.1 = −4.82.