The March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (the “event”) in Japan has had global repercussions. We conduct a detailed event study on German and French power futures' prices and returns and find that price responses for different underlyings are not significantly...

The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...