Type of Submission
Invited Article
Abstract
The current study explores the impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. restaurant industry in terms of its stock performance, and further incorporates a global perspective into this examination by testing both the main and moderating effects of non-U.S. COVID-19 and also the moderating effect of the internationalization strategy of the U.S. restaurant industry. Findings of this study confirm that U.S. COVID-19 had a negative influence on U.S. restaurant firms' stock returns while non-U.S. COVID-19 had a positive impact. Further, the non-U.S. COVID-19 had a positive moderating effect on the relationship between U.S. COVID-19 and restaurant firms' stock returns. Unexpectedly, the study finds that U.S. restaurant firms' internationlization strategy does not moderate the negative impact of U.S. COVID-19 on restaurants' stock performance. Practical implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/x78z-g422
Recommended Citation
Lee, Seoki; Song, Hyoungju; Lin, Michael S.; and Sharma, Amit
(2021)
"Impacts of COVID-19 on the U.S. Restaurant Industry from the Global Perspective,"
Journal of Hospitality Financial Management: Vol. 29:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/x78z-g422
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/jhfm/vol29/iss1/2
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