Abstract
This study empirically investigated volatility spill-over and financial contagion effect between conventional stocks and shariah compliant equities before and during covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Banking and insurance sectoral stocks indices were selected to represent conventional equities while Nigerian stock exchange lotus islamic index represent islamic stocks. Daily closing stock price data from 02-01-2018 to 26-02-2020 for pre-covid and 27-02-2020 to 31-12-2021 for pre-covid and during covid were considered. DCC-GARCH model (Dynamic conditional correlation- Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model) was deployed to examine the spill-over effect while t-test was applied to check the consistency of the DCC coefficient before and during the pandemic. The result of the multivariate GARCH show that both banking and insurance stocks have long run volatility spillover effect on lotus islamic index, the result also revealed no significant increase in conditional correlation during covid-19 pandemic which indicate absence of financial contagion from the conventional to islamic stocks. The results provide important information to researchers, investors, and policymakers
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