Precarious Politics and Return Volatility
We examine how local and global political risks affect industry return volatility. Our central premise is that some industries are more sensitive to political events than others. We find that industries that are more dependent on trade, contract enforcement, and labor exhibit greater return volatility when local political risks are higher. Political uncertainty in countries of trading partners of trade-dependent industries similarly results in greater volatility. Volatility decomposition results indicate that while systematic volatility is associated with domestic political uncertainty, global political risks translate into larger idiosyncratic volatility. The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com., Oxford University Press.
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2012
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Authors: | Boutchkova, Maria ; Doshi, Hitesh ; Durnev, Art ; Molchanov, Alexander |
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Review of Financial Studies. - Society for Financial Studies - SFS. - Vol. 25.2012, 4, p. 1111-1154
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Society for Financial Studies - SFS |
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