The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt’s Arab Spring

Unprecedented street protests brought down Mubarak’s government and ushered in an era of competition between three rival political groups in Egypt. Using daily variation in the number of protesters, we document that more intense protests are associated with lower stock market valuations for firms co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hassan, Tarek A., Tahoun, Ahmed, Acemoglu, K. Daron
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113599
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491