Big Questions, Little Answers: Terrorism Activity, Investor Sentiment and Stock Returns

No 8, Economics of Security Working Paper Series from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: Motivated by the investor sentiment literature and assuming that terrorist activity influences investor mood the paper explores whether terrorism exerts a significant negative impact on daily stock market returns for a sample of 22 countries. The employed empirical specifications are based on flexible versions of the World CAPM allowing for autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity. The results suggest that terrorist activity leads to significantly lower returns on the day of terrorist attack occurrence. In addition, the negative effect of terrorist activity is substantially amplified as the level of psychosocial effects increases. On the one hand this evidence sheds light to the underlying mechanism via which terrorism affects stock markets while on the other hand provides further empirical support for the sentiment effect.

Keywords: Sentiment; Terrorism; Stock Market; Panel; Pooled Panel ARCH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 E44 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 p.
Date: 2009
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