The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Stock Markets: Investigation of Countries with Intensive Case and Deaths and Turkey

TheCOVID-19Coronaviruspandemic, whichemerged in December 2019 and has beenongoingforabout a year, has affectedtheworldandcausedglobalsocio-psychological and financial crisis.The aim of this study is to investigate whethert here is a causality relationship between daily total case and death numbers and stock markets of the countries that seen widely daily total case and death numbers dependent on COVID-19. In the study it is used theToda-Yamamoto causality analyzes method, daily data forth eperiod of 18.02.2020 and 30.09.2020 wereexploited. As a result, it was determined that there are causality from total case and death numbers to stock market swhich all selected countries that reached the top 5 daily total case and death numbers dependent on COVID-19Coronavirus pandemic in theworld; US, India, Brasil, Russia and Colombia and alsoTurkey.