An increasing body of recent literature focuses on how stock market investor sentiment fluctuates during the pandemic. However, a topic insufficiently addressed is related to investigating the changes occurred in the economic sentiment and expectations during COVID-19 pandemic, as a broader...

The major focus of this paper is on the sovereign-banks relationship following the COVID- 19 pandemic crisis outbreak, with a view to gaining an insight into banks' exposure to the sovereign. We rely on a series of complementary research approaches, such as desk research, comparative statistical...