Using a news-based gauge of geopolitical risk, we study its role for asset pricing in global emerging markets. We find … that changes in risk positively predict future stock returns. The countries with the highest increase in geopolitical …

; Germany pre-1913 ; Cartel ; Productive efficiency ; Corporate Governance …

precisely, we consider the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, a coal cartel that operated in Imperial Germany in the late 19th … event study methodology to asses the reaction of the stock market to the foundation of the cartel and two major revisions of … data in a dynamic panel data framework. Overall, our results suggest that the investigated cartel had no significant effect …