Effect Analysis of Covid-19 on China’s Capital Market for Property-Rights Exchange Based on Functional Clustering

Abstract

In August 2015, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China listed China’s capital market for property-rights exchange as the capital market along with the Chinese stock market. Consequently, China’s capital market for property-rights exchange is an integral part of the country’s multilayered capital market. The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant effects on the capital markets. Since China’s capital market for property-rights exchange mainly serves nonlisted companies, it is complicated to obtain its exchange data to perform COVID-19’s effect analysis. This study investigates COVID-19’s effect on China’s capital market for property-rights exchange. In this paper, we collected the online property rights-exchange data from 2017 to 2020 of an electric trading platform. The functional principal component analysis method is innovatively introduced to explore the online property rights-exchange fluctuation to get an insight into COVID-19’s effect on China’s capital market for property-rights exchange. Based on the principal component scores, COVID-19’s effect on different property rights-exchange institutions are divided into two categories using principal component clustering. A time-series model is used to quantify the effects in the two categories. The research results finally show that online property rights-exchange can reduce the negative effect of COVID-19 on China’s capital market for property-rights exchange, which encourages property rights-exchange institutions to accelerate the use of the online platform to overcome the challenges of the pandemic.