The impact of SARS outbreak on 1-month stock return of various industry sectors.
Note: One-month stock returns (
R) are calculated from changes in monthly closing stock price (
SP). That is,
, where
SPMay and
SPApril are the closing prices at the end of April and May, respectively. The composite stock price index is the monthly capitalization-weighted stock index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Data of stock price index for each industry are taken from the TEJ database.