Do Political News Affect Financial Market Returns? Evidences from Brazil

This paper investigates the relation between political news and market returns. To do so we applied a Garch filter to a sample of the main Brazilian stock market index returns (Ibovespa Index) and of short-term interest rates (Selic Over and DI) which ranged from 01/02/2014 to 04/29/2016. Then we lo...

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Main Authors: Thales Marques, Nelson dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad: Behzad Hassannezhad Kashani 2016-10-01
Series:International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
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Online Access:https://www.ijmae.com/article_115521_c1b14f0c641392a2ac5fccdb4189567a.pdf