id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-262169-5x2oop1g Alola, Andrew Adewale The nCOVID-19 and financial stress in the USA: health is wealth 2020-10-08 .txt text/plain 3186 155 51 By employing the empirical Markov switching regression approach and the compliments of cointegration techniques, the study establishes a two-state (stable and distressing) financial stress situation resulting from the effects of COVID-19 daily deaths, COVID-19 daily recovery, and the USA' economic policy uncertainty. Giving that only a sparse study such as Nicola et al (2020) has explored the economic aspects of COVID-19, the novelty of the current study is expected to close the existing gap in the literature through the following approaches: (i) the examining of the impact of daily deaths from COVID-19, daily recoveries from COVID-19, and economic uncertainty on financial stress, (ii) illustrating with empirical evidence of the states of financial stress with the regime switching approach of Markov-Switch regression technique, and (iii) the use of daily frequency and quite up-to-date data spanning the period 25 February 2020-30 March 2020. ./cache/cord-262169-5x2oop1g.txt ./txt/cord-262169-5x2oop1g.txt