Second, we include population density of each country as a risk factor responsible for the transmission of the coronavirus and third, air pollution; factors that are highly significant in the COVID-19 literature ( Benvenuto et al., 2020 , Sajadi et al., 2020 ).
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The quest for multidimensional financial immunity to the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from international stock markets
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When the number of covariates is ‘large’, some of them are likely to be significant ‘by chance’ and, subsequently, perform poorly out of sample.