“…Recently, several works focused on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and financial aspects have been published in the literature ( Ashraf, 2020 , Conlon et al, 2020 , Goodell, 2020 , Goutte et al, 2020 , Sharif et al, 2020 , Yarovaya et al, 2020 , Conlon and McGee, 2020 , Shehzad et al, 2020 , Goodell and Huynh, 2020 ). A simple statistical analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global financial market was explored in ( Zhang et al, 2020 ).…”