Do elections bring optimism?

• Autores: Antonis Adam
• Localización: Electoral Studies: An international Journal, ISSN 0261-3794, Vol. 33, 2014, págs. 137-143
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of elections on economic sentiment. Using monthly data from 14 EU countries over the 1985�2011 period, we show that there is a significant improvement, statistically and economically, of sentiment of the month that elections take place, but this effect is rather short lived, lasting on average less than two months.