Democratic Processes and Financial Markets
Cambridge University Press
978-0-521-86122-9 - Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics - by William Bernhard and David Leblang
Table of Contents
Contents
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| Acknowledgments | page ix |
| 1 Introduction | 1 |
| 2 Democratic Processes and Political Risk: Evidence from Foreign Exchange Markets | 17 |
| 3 When Markets Party: Stocks, Bonds, and Cabinet Formations | 49 |
| 4 The Cross-National Financial Consequences of Political Predictability | 86 |
| 5 Cabinet Dissolutions and Interest Rate Behavior | 103 |
| 6 Bargaining and Bonds: The Process of Coalition Formation and the Market for Government Debt in Austria and New Zealand | 138 |
| 7 Time, Shares, and Florida: The 2000 Presidential Election and Stock Market Volatility | 170 |
| 8 Polls and Pounds: Exchange Rate Behavior and Public Opinion in Britain | 198 |
| 9 Conclusion: Political Predictability and Financial Market Behavior | 225 |
| References | 237 |
| Index | 255 |
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