Political partisanship and stock market performance: Evidence from the United Kingdom
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Bachelor's thesis
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2024
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Rahoitus
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en
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27 + 3
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This thesis examines the relationship between the political orientation of the government and stock market performance in the United Kingdom. Using monthly data from 1965 to 2023, I examine how returns and volatility differ under Labour and Conservative governments by running OLS regressions while controlling for business cycle variables. I do not find significant evidence of stock market returns exhibiting a difference in favour of one party over the other. Additionally, I find no significant difference in volatilities between the two parties for the entire sample period, though I find some evidence of volatility being higher during Labour governments for the 1994-2023 period. These findings suggest that the well-documented political premium (Santa-Clara and Valkanov, 2003) does not hold for the United Kingdom.Description
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Kokkonen, JoniKeywords
politics, political cycles, partisan theory, stock market performance