Populism and financial markets

Hartwell, Christopher A.

doi:10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23926

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Populism and financial markets
Authors:	Hartwell, Christopher A.
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479 10.21256/zhaw-23926
Published in:	Finance Research Letters
Volume(Issue):	46
Issue:	102479
Page(s):	1
Pages to:	10
Issue Date:	2021
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1544-6123
Language:	English
Subjects:	Populism; Political volatility; Uncertainty; EGARCH
Subject (DDC):	320: Politics 332: Financial economics
Abstract:	How do financial markets react to populist electoral success? Theoretically, the effect can go in one of two directions. In the first instance, populists tend to espouse resolutely anti-finance ideas, and thus a populist wave would be expected to be bad for financial returns across the board. On the other hand, populists also tend to enact various stimulus and redistributive schemes, and these policies could also give a boost to financial markets. Additionally, in the long-term, if populists become entrenched, they take over the commanding heights, meaning a need for functioning financial markets in order to provide capital for the elites. Utilizing new advances in the measurement of populism, this paper amasses a database of populist advances across developed economies since 2008 and arrays them against equity market performance. Using EGARCH-M volatility modelling on pooled data and event studies on specific episodes of populist success, this analysis reveals that a) populism's effect in the short run is mainly through volatility channels and b) populism's longer-term effects are highly dependent on the specific brand of populism and the country context in which populism operates.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/23926
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	International Management Institute (IMI)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Hartwell, C. A. (2021). Populism and financial markets. Finance Research Letters, 46(102479), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479

Hartwell, C.A. (2021) ‘Populism and financial markets’, Finance Research Letters, 46(102479), pp. 1–10. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479.

C. A. Hartwell, “Populism and financial markets,” Finance Research Letters, vol. 46, no. 102479, pp. 1–10, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479.

HARTWELL, Christopher A., 2021. Populism and financial markets. Finance Research Letters. 2021. Bd. 46, Nr. 102479, S. 1–10. DOI 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479

Hartwell, Christopher A. 2021. “Populism and Financial Markets.” Finance Research Letters 46 (102479): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479.

Hartwell, Christopher A. “Populism and Financial Markets.” Finance Research Letters, vol. 46, no. 102479, 2021, pp. 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102479.