political uncertainty is priced in the equity option market as predicted by theory. Options whose lives span political events …We empirically analyze the pricing of political uncertainty, guided by a theoretical model of government policy choice …. To isolate political uncertainty, we exploit its variation around national elections and global summits. We find that …

revolutions, the nature of this uncertainty changes from idiosyncratic to systematic. The resulting "bubbles" in stock prices are … observable ex post but unpredictable ex ante, and they are most pronounced for technologies characterized by high uncertainty and …

political uncertainty is priced in the equity option market as predicted by theory. Options whose lives span political events …We empirically analyze the pricing of political uncertainty, guided by a theoretical model of government policy choice …. To isolate political uncertainty, we exploit its variation around national elections and global summits. We find that …

political uncertainty is priced in the equity option market as predicted by theory. Options whose lives span political events …We empirically analyze the pricing of political uncertainty, guided by a theoretical model of government policy choice …. To isolate political uncertainty, we exploit its variation around national elections and global summits. We find that …