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The political risk factor in emerging, frontier, and developed stock markets

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  • Dimic, Nebojsa
  • Orlov, Vitaly
  • Piljak, Vanja

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This paper investigates how determinants of the political risk factor affect the stock returns of developed, emerging and frontier markets. We find that composite political risk is priced in all three stock market categories, but the effect of individual components varies across different markets.

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  • Dimic, Nebojsa & Orlov, Vitaly & Piljak, Vanja, 2015. "The political risk factor in emerging, frontier, and developed stock markets," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 15(C), pages 239-245.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:15:y:2015:i:c:p:239-245
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2015.10.007
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    Keywords

    Political risk; Stock returns; Frontier and emerging markets;
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    JEL classification:

    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General
    • F50 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - General
    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets

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