The landscape of the Malaysian healthcare sector during COVID-19 : a network perspective

Bahaludin, Hafizah and Laham, Mohamed Faris (2025) The landscape of the Malaysian healthcare sector during COVID-19 : a network perspective. In: International Conference of Optimization and Financial Mathematics 2023, 16-17 September 2023, Institut Teknologi Bandung.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the global economy, including financial markets, and significantly affected the healthcare sector in Malaysia with disruptions to supply chains and increased demand for services. Complex network analysis has been used to understand the pandemic’s ramifications, modelling the financial market with companies as vertices and asset price correlations as edges. Filtering techniques like the minimum spanning tree were employed to unveil crucial relationships. The study aimed to investigate COVID-19’s impact on the Malaysian healthcare sector and identify pivotal companies. Results showed significant changes in the sector’s financial network during the pandemic, indicating increased interconnectedness. The study’s implications include highlighting the pandemic’s influence on the sector and its improved resilience, identifying key players for informed investment decisions, and providing valuable insights for policymakers, investors, and stakeholders to make informed decisions in these unprecedented times.

Item Type:	Proceeding Paper (Invited Papers)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Stock Market, Bursa Malaysia, Minimum spanning tree, COVID-19
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Science > Department of Computational and Theoretical Sciences Kulliyyah of Science
Depositing User:	Hafizah Bahaludin
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2025 16:03
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2025 16:03
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/120394

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