Can We Insure Against Political Uncertainty? Evidence from the U.S. Stock Market
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We show that existing stocks that are currently traded in the U.S. stock market can be used to hedge political uncertainty. Focusing on the 2000 U.S. PresidentiKeywords
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