The Impact of COVID-19 Spread on the Egyptian Banks’ Soundness

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Finance Department, Faculty of Economics and International Trade

2 Faculty of Economics and International Trade, Egyptian Chinese University ECU, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

The aim of the research is to examine the impact of COVID-19 spread on banks’ performance during the period of Jan 1st, 2020, till December 31st, 2021. Banks’ performances are measured using CAMEL approach quarterly data, COVID-19 spread has been measured by ln of (new cases, cumulative new cases, new deaths, and cumulative deaths) / Egypt’s population / one million. This has been applied on 5 top Egyptian banks ranked as total assets highest value. Data collected from banks’ annual, and quarter published reports, and World Health Organization COVID-19 database.
Results indicate that banks performance of top 5 Egyptian banks were negatively affected by Coronavirus new cases and Coronavirus cumulative cases shows more significant effect rather than Coronavirus new deaths, and cumulative deaths. Results supported using panel analysis according to GMM technique using normal and fixed effect models, least-Square normal and fixed effect for the whole research period and sub periods.

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