The impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the stockmarket in Slovenia

This paper aims to analyze how the Slovenian stock market responded to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and the lockdown situation in the country. The study employed a descriptive research design using qualitative and quantitative secondary data. The pandemic-imposed restrictions and the collapse in international trade abruptly halted several years of expansion in Slovenia. Following trends in global markets, the Ljubljana Stock Exchange in March 2020 stumbled due to fears of the new virus and a severe drop in economic activity. The existing literature on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontier and less-developed stock markets is very limited. This paper contributes to the existing literature by identifying how less-established stock markets respond to the pandemic crisis. Investors and policymakers can benefit from the results, as understanding how a certain stock market reacts to a sudden global crisis improves decision-making under crisis circumstances.