“…1 Further, Narayan (2021) points out that majority of the existing pandemic research is based on high-frequency data on financial markets and very few studies have been explored within the framework of general equilibrium modeling. The majority of the studies have focused on developed economies such as the US ( Faria-e Castro, 2021 , Danieli and Olmstead-Rumsey, 2020 , Eichenbaum et al, 2020a , Eichenbaum et al, 2020b ) and the Euro countries ( Busato et al, 2020 , Hürtgen, 2020 ) while in case of EMEs the literature is still burgeoning like China ( Fang et al, 2021 , Jiang et al, 2021 , Liu et al, 2021 , Zhang et al, 2021 , Zhao and Chen, 2022 ), Indonesia ( Chopra and Mehta, 2022 , Lie, 2021 , Takeda et al, 2022 ), Brazil ( Chopra and Mehta, 2022 , Porsse et al, 2020 ) and Turkey ( Can et al, 2021 , Ileri, 2022 , Mugaloglu et al, 2021 ).…”