TITLE:
The Impact of COVID-19 on the West African Stock Exchange (BRVM)
AUTHORS:
El Hadji Omar Ndao, Papa Dethie Ndao, Arame Top
KEYWORDS:
COVID-19, Stock Market, Listed Companies, BRVM and Crisis
JOURNAL NAME:
Technology and Investment,
Vol.17 No.1,
January
26,
2026
ABSTRACT: The motivation for this article is to study the impact of COVID-19 on stock market trading volume within the WAEMU zone. We used a static panel data model for time-series (monthly) data from January 2020 to December 2021. The results of the analysis show that COVID-19 positively and significantly influenced the performance of the BRVM (Regional Stock Exchange).