The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic period on stock market return and volatility. Evidence from the Pakistan Stock Exchange

• Baixiang Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: wbaixiangmm@yeah.net

  Affiliation School of Management, Chuzhou Vocational and Technical College, Chuzhou, China

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• Muhammad Waris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation UE Business School, University of Education, Multan Campus, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6574-2775

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• Katarzyna Adamiak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Management and Quality Sciences, University of Justice, Warsaw, Poland

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• Mohammad Adnan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Business and Management Department, SBS Swiss Business School, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Hawkar Anwer Hamad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Accounting and Finance, College of Administration and Economics, Lebanese French University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

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• Saad Mahmood Bhatti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Institute of Business and Management (IB&M), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan, Graduate School of Business (GSB), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0242-4902

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