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Biopharmaceutical Companies: The Winner of the Stock Market During the Covid Period
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Abstract
Developing a so-called "green economy" garners more support in the current climate of uncertainty and danger. Since the beginning of the 21st century, we have recognized that the drive to develop the economy causes irreparable harm to the planet's ecosystem. After the Covid pandemic, a new intermediate industry, the biopharmaceutical industry, has emerged to reduce the tension between the human ecology and the earth's ecosystem. This industry devised a successful response to the health, economic, and social issues of the pandemic age. This paper aims to examine the financial performance of two renowned biopharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Moderna, which have been permitted to distribute the mRNA vaccine worldwide. This paper concludes the investigation into the stock performance of these two companies prior to and throughout COVID. Besides, examination of the technology market index, market volatility, and investor sentiment reveals the various fluctuations. In addition, the data reveals an effect of contagion between the two enterprises and the technology market. Thus, the research gives useful information for the development of public health economics, policy, and administration.
Keywords
biopharmaceutical companies, sustainability, COVID, health finance, green economy
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Management Research and Economic Development
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-83-6
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-84-3
- Published Date
- 13 September 2023
- Series
- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
- ISSN (Print)
- 2754-1169
- ISSN (Online)
- 2754-1177
- DOI
- 10.54254/2754-1169/20/20230187
- Copyright
- 13 September 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited