Election results may influence corporate performance by general changes in government spending and tax changes. In addition, specific companies or sectors might benefit or suffer from sector-specific governmental decisions. Stock market participants will incorporate expectations about political...

The paper analyzes the question whether blue-chip stock indices provide a larger degree of internationalization than mid-cap stock indices. The specific focus lies on internationalization of blue-chip versus mid-cap stock indices in France, Germany, and the UK.Methodology/Approach: The dataset...

We analyze whether the results of the 1980 to 2008 U.S. presidential elections influence the stock market performance of eight industries and we examine factors that are expected to affect firms' stock returns around these elections. Our empirical analysis reflects firms' exposure to government...

Quadratic optimization for asset portfolios often leads to error maximization, with optimizers zooming in on large errors in the predicted inputs, that is, expected returns and risks. The consequence in most cases is a poor real-time performance. In this paper we show how to improve real-time...