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Long-term relationship between political behavior and stock market return: new evidence from quantile regression

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The stock market is an extremely sensitive and comprehensive indicator of the fluctuating political climate as well as investor confidence. Therefore, in an era of fierce media competition, the long-term influence of political behaviors on the Taiwan stock market is an important issue. However, the traditional regression model can only describe the “average” influence of variables on rate of return rather than completely describe conditional distribution as in quantile regression, which also analyzes correlations between stock return and the congressional effect.

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Wang, YH., Hung, JC., Kao, HH. et al. Long-term relationship between political behavior and stock market return: new evidence from quantile regression. Qual Quant 45, 1361–1367 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-010-9340-x

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