When Volatility Begins at Home: Globalization, Elections, and Financial Market Volatility in Emerging Markets
Raphael Cunha
Abstract:How do elections generate financial market volatility in emerging market countries? Existing scholarship disagrees over the relative importance of "push" (global) and "pull" (country-specific) factors in explaining volatility. This study moves beyond the binary debate between push and pull factors by examining how these factors interact in complex and dynamic ways. Local and global investors operate in different information environments when evaluating political risk. Local investors' information advantage lea… Show more
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