Democratic Processes and Financial Markets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521861229)

The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior. Further, political expectations condition how markets respond to the political process. When news causes market actors to update their political beliefs, market actors reallocate their portfolios, and overall market behavior changes. To measure political information, Professors Bernhard and Leblang employ sophisticated models of the political process. They draw on a variety of models of market behavior, including the efficient markets hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory, to trace the impact of political events on currency, stock, and bond markets. The analysis will appeal to academics, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates across political science, economics, and finance.

Author: William Bernhard,David Leblang
ISBN-10: 0521861225
ISBN-13: 9780521861229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d