to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

Election in 2009. We conducted a daily web survey for seven days before and after the election, obtaining1068 responses … significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …

autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates vary across local councils, the data allows us to disentangle effects … behavior as the growth rate of the local business tax is significantly reduced in the election year and the year prior to the … election, while it jumps up in the year after the election. This pattern turns out to be robust against a number of sensitivity …

distress is 30 percent lower in the year directly preceding an election. Using the electoral cycle as an instrument, we show …

development of business. I use state election months as indicators of times of high political uncertainty. The results show that … optimistic prior to state elections because politicians promised individual policies to gratify the firms' needs during election … times. Firms might be disappointed after elections as the promises made during election campaigns by politicians turn out to …

distress is 30 percent lower in the year directly preceding an election. Using the electoral cycle as an instrument, we show …