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Essays in development economics and political economy
Jayachandran, Seema - 2004
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The Jeffords effect
Jayachandran, Seema - In: The journal of law & economics 49 (2006) 2, pp. 397-425
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The Jeffords Effect
Jayachandran, Seema - 2006
In May 2001, Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party and tipped control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats. This paper uses the surprise event to demonstrate what I term the "Jeffords effect": changes in the political landscape have large effects on the market value of firms. I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054353
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Partisan return gap : the polarized stock market in the time of a pandemic
Sheng, Jinfei; Sun, Zheng - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 8, pp. 5091-5114
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Ties that bind and grind? : investor reactions to politician appointments to corporate boards
El Nayal, Omar; Oosterhout, Hans van; Essen, Marc van - In: Journal of management 47 (2021) 2, pp. 456-487
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Market reactions to financial distress announcements : do political connections matter?
Ahmad, Abd Halim; Nur Adiana Hiau Abdullah; Kamarun … - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-8
We examined market reactions to the financial distress announcements of listed firms in Malaysia. We investigated whether the market differentiates between the politically connected and non-politically connected vis-a-vis the outcomes at the time of the announcements. There is evidence of...
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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? : evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012
Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18
. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on … non-public information. However, the question of whether politicians made informed trades at the market level (using non … and find that the STOCK Act adversely affected the ability of politicians’ aggregated stock trades to predict the stock …
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Do stock returns vary with campaign contributions? : Bush vs. Gore ; the Florida recount
Shon, John J. - In: Economics & politics 22 (2010) 3, pp. 257-281
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Corporate campaign contributions as a predictor for abnormal stock returns after presidential elections
Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael - 2008
Contributions by investor-owned companies play major roles in financing the campaigns of candidates for elective office in the United States. We look at the presidential level and analyze contributions by companies before an election and their stock market performance following US presidential...
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Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections
Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael - In: Public choice 156 (2013) 1/2, pp. 285-307
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