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Research Article

A coronavirus outbreak and sector stock returns: a tale from the first ten weeks of 2020

Khoa Huu NguyenDepartment of Finance, School of Business, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, United StatesCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1730-1740 | Published online: 06 Aug 2021

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