This paper looks at the evolution of U.S. stock prices from the time of the Presidential elections to the end of 2017. It concludes that a bit more than half of the increase in the aggregate U.S. stock prices from the presidential election to the end of 2017 can be attributed to higher actual...

We analyze the effects of the major U.S. tax reform of 2017 on European firms. While foreign firms that are active in the respective country should be directly affected, other foreign firms could also be indirectly affected through competition. With an event study design, we analyze stock market...