Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election (DOI:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.06.003);Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 751-773

  Knight, Brian ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Elections; Financial markets; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645927937     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.06.004     Document Type: Erratum

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