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- Title
Political Party Affiliation of the President, Majority in Congress, and Sin Stock Returns.
- Authors
Sabherwal, Sanjiv; Sarkar, Salil K.; Uddin, Mohammad Riaz
- Abstract
We find that in contrast to the stock market, which performs better during Democratic presidencies, 'sin' stocks-publicly traded producers of tobacco, alcohol, and gaming-perform better during Republican presidencies and even more so when the Republican presidency is accompanied by a Republican majority in at least one chamber of Congress. We examine whether sin firms use contributions to establish connections with politicians and find that sin firms contribute more to Republican candidates and that these contributions are greater when Republicans are in power. We also find a positive relation between political contributions and future returns. The relation is stronger for contributions to Republicans.
- Subjects
AFFILIATION (Psychology); POLITICAL parties; STOCK exchanges; REPUBLICANS; TAX returns; EXCISE tax
- Publication
Financial Management (Wiley-Blackwell), 2017, Vol 46, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0046-3892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fima.12141