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The role of stock ownership by US members of Congress on the market for political favors
Tahoun, Ahmed - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 1, pp. 86-110
I examine whether stock ownership by politicians helps to enforce noncontractible quid pro quo relations with firms …. This bias toward contributors depends on the financial incentives of politicians and the relation's value. Firms with a … economically large. When politicians divest stocks, firms discontinue contributions to the politicians, lose future contracts, and …
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Political Momentum
Bonaparte, Yosef - 2019
We show that stock prices underreact when there is a political event, reflected in higher momentum returns. We conjecture that political news crowds out stock news cause investors to distract, trade more indexes and underreact to firm specific news. We analyze momentum returns following general...
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Do Politicians 'Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?' Ideology and Portfolio Choice
Aiken, Adam L. - 2017
previous work in this area. We find that politicians with similar beliefs hold similar portfolios and that more liberal members … engage in more socially responsible investing (SRI), even within political parties. Politicians disproportionately favor the …
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Firms political connections and winning government contracts
Dicko, Saidatou - In: International journal of economics and finance 8 (2016) 2, pp. 19-32
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Bringing home the bacon : do politicians on boards increase firms' government contracts?
Wasson, Tyler; Quinn, Michael A. - In: Society and business review 19 (2024) 2, pp. 336-350
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100340
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Climate-related natural disasters and voting behavior : evidence from environmental legislation in the US senate
Elliott, Robert J. R.; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; Strobl, Eric; … - In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and … 10 (2023) 3, pp. 753-786
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Political leaders and macroeconomic expectations : evidence from a global survey experiment
Boumans, Dorine; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2022
Can one single political leader influence macroeconomic expectations on a global scale? We design a large-scale survey experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the effect...
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On the international spillovers of US quantitative easing
Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland - 2015
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