How do stock markets respond to extreme events? This paper analyzes the reaction ofstock markets in four industrialized economies (Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the US) to ten major international crises. We employ an event study to investigate whether the stock exchanges react differently with...

We investigate how financial market participants value energy accidents. We employ an event study to look into the response of stock markets to 209 accidents. These accidents were derived from Sovacool’s (2008) database on major energy accidents from 1907 to 2007. It appears that the stock...

How do stock markets respond to extreme events? This paper analyzes the reaction ofstock markets in four industrialized economies (Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the US) to ten major international crises. We employ an event study to investigate whether the stock exchanges react differently with...