“…Jumping behavior is always accompanied by a black swan event, and in the context of COVID-19, jumping risk is well worth being considered. Given that a price variation process with jump term is hardly estimated by traditional volatility model, such as GARCH and so on, jumps not only can affect the depiction of the panoramic picture of the variation characteristics ( Zhang et al, 2018 ; Zhou et al, 2020 ; Semeyutin et al, 2021 ; Janda and Kourilek, 2020 ), but also cause the pricing and risk management work to become invalid ( Dutta et al, 2021 ; Guo and Lin, 2020 ), bringing incalculable losses to large number of China's energy market investors worldwide. This study will directly reveal how COVID-19 triggers the jumps component in the price movement pattern of China's energy stocks.…”