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48 results for political finance

Paper finds political networks reduce bond issuance costs in China.

problem The financial value of within-government political networks in China.
method Using municipal leaders' working experience to measure political networks, the study examines the effect on bond issuance yield spreads.
result Political networks reduce bond issuance yield spreads by improving issuer credit ratings, especially in less developed financial markets.

Study examines Trump's crypto influence on markets, revealing conflicts and vulnerabilities.

problem Presidential power and cryptocurrency markets during Trump's second term.
method Mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative data.
result Political-linked digital assets became a distinct class with systemic vulnerabilities.

Venice used 'helicopter money' to subsidize during famine and plague, but it caused instability.

problem Subsidizing inhabitants during containment policies while preventing long-term debt increase.
method Net-worth helicopter money strategy, equivalent to monetary expansion generating losses to the issuer.
result The strategy caused much monetary instability and had to be quickly reversed.

Study maps research streams in biodiversity finance, identifies key areas.

problem Biodiversity loss and need for finance to reverse trends.
method Quantitative bibliometric analysis of 189,456 references.
result Identifies eight primary research streams in biodiversity finance.

Scores political leanings in Web3 betting markets.

problem Understanding political motivations in decentralized prediction markets.
method Constructing PBLS from Polymarket data, analyzing 15k addresses, 4k events, 8k markets.
result Validated PBLS through internal and external comparisons, revealing political and profit motives.

Unfulfilled expectations from macro-economic initiatives during the Great Recession and the massive shift into globalization echo today with political upheaval, anti-establishment propaganda, and looming trade/currency wars that threaten domestic and international value chains. Once stable entities like the EU now look…

2019-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

One important effect of price shocks in the United States has been increased political attention paid to the structure and performance of oil and natural gas markets, along with some governmental support for energy conservation. This paper describes how price changes helped lead the emergence of a political agenda acco…

2015-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Based mainly on examples of interest in mechanics, we define the notion of a polite group action. One may view this as not only trying to give a more general notion than properness of a group action, but also to more fully understand the role of invariant functions in describing just about everything of interest in red…

2013-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Human stablecoin transactions predict political risk in cryptocurrency markets.

problem Predicting political risk in cryptocurrency markets.
method Structural break analysis and surrogate-based robustness tests.
result Human-driven stablecoin transactions shift significantly before major political events.

Model forecasts hourly electricity demand influenced by weather, socio-economic, and political factors.

problem Accurate hourly electricity demand forecasting in the face of multifaceted uncertainties.
method Interpretable probabilistic mid-term forecasting model using Generalized Additive Models (GAMs).
result Highlights vulnerability of countries to extreme weather scenarios under electric heating adoption.

Italy's vaccine coverage fell, leading to political debates and online social media discussions.

problem Low vaccine coverage and political debates on immunization in Italy.
method Sentiment analysis of tweets in Italian during 2018 to assess public opinion on vaccines.
result There was disorientation among the public due to political announcements, as evidenced by Twitter data.

Study max- and min-stability under first-order stochastic dominance, finding new functional characterizations.

problem Understanding max- and min-stability in stochastic dominance.
method Representation theorem for functionals satisfying max-stability, combining max- and min-stability to define Lambda-quantiles.
result New characterizations of functionals, including Lambda-quantiles, in finance and political science.

The paper uses Black-Scholes model to analyze political support and coalition agreements.

problem Determining the minimum support level for a minor party in a pre-electoral coalition.
method Modeling political support as a stochastic process with a deterministic growth rate and applying Black-Scholes option pricing theory.
result The minimum support level for a minor party to gain a representative in a pre-electoral coalition.

Model predicts political ideology using context vectors to mitigate bias and scarcity.

problem Scarcity and selection bias in political ideology prediction.
method Proposes a statistical model decomposing embeddings into context and position vectors, training an end-to-end model for deployment.
result Model can predict ideological labels even with minimal biased data, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

In Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, data often has the following two properties: First, data can be chopped into multi-views which has been successfully used for dimension reduction purposes. For example, in topic classification, every paper can be chopped into the title, the main text and the references. Howev…

2012-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

News attention to financial intermediaries and crises predicts excess bond premium and macroeconomic movements.

problem Drivers of the excess bond premium (EBP).
method News attention to 180 topics captures up to 80% of EBP variation and forecasts macroeconomic movements.
result News attention to financial intermediaries and crises drives up the EBP and predicts macroeconomic downturns.

The study analyzes how wartime controls influenced zaibatsu stock prices in Japan.

problem How wartime economic controls affected zaibatsu stock prices in Japan.
method Developed a four-portfolio asset-pricing model and used a CAPM-AR(p)-SV event-study framework.
result Wartime economic controls influenced stock prices through financing wedges and zaibatsu affiliation.

In the era of big data, analysts usually explore various statistical models or machine learning methods for observed data in order to facilitate scientific discoveries or gain predictive power. Whatever data and fitting procedures are employed, a crucial step is to select the most appropriate model or method from a set…

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Prediction markets can shape political behavior through persistent signals, not just forecast accuracy.

problem The role of prediction markets beyond forecasting.
method Transaction-level evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Signal Credibility Index (SCI).
result Price signals in prediction markets are more influential due to persistence, breadth of trader types, and cross-platform consensus.

Anti-ELAB protests affected Hong Kong firms' stock prices, especially those linked to pan-democrats.

problem Impact of anti-ELAB protests on Hong Kong firms' stock prices.
method Daily protesting intensity measured by number of protestors from 2019/6/6 to 2020/1/17; analyzed stock price changes of firms.
result Anti-ELAB protests negatively affected firms linked to pan-democrats, positively affected red chips.

IndexGAN predicts stock trends using GAN with expert knowledge and news context.

problem Inaccurate stock prediction due to market complexity and limitations of existing GANs.
method Wasserstein GAN framework for multi-step prediction, incorporating news context and market sentiment.
result Superior performance on real-world broad-based indices compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

The study shows how trade uncertainty affects stock-bond correlations over time.

problem Impact of trade policy uncertainty on stock-bond correlations.
method Daily data analysis using GARCH-based models (CCC, STCC, DCC) with TPU and political dummy variables.
result Time-varying correlation models better capture the dynamics of stock-bond correlations than constant models.

cMCA uses contrastive learning to identify latent subgroups in political party data.

problem Identifying latent subgroups within political party data.
method Contrastive learning applied to multiple correspondence analysis (MCA).
result cMCA identifies latent subgroups not seen by traditional methods.

Policy shifts between Trump and Biden impact ESG investments, creating volatility.

problem Dramatic policy shifts between Trump and Biden administrations affect ESG investments.
method Analyzes contrasting policies of Trump and Biden administrations and their impacts on ESG investments.
result Policy changes significantly influence ESG investments, leading to volatility and portfolio reassessment.

Study examines how governance, corruption, and R&D affect economic development.

problem The impact of corruption and governance on economic development.
method General equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and a government, including corruption as a fraction of tax revenues.
result Redistribution and innovation-led strategies can mitigate the negative effects of corruption on economic development.

Paper connects fair machine learning to political philosophy, highlighting flaws in ideal approaches.

problem Lack of natural formulation for social desiderata in machine learning.
method Proposes metrics and algorithms to satisfy subsets of fairness parities, trading off against utility.
result Misguided fair machine learning algorithms reflect broader flaws in ideal methodological approaches.

This article presents a preliminary approach towards characterizing political fake news on Twitter through the analysis of their meta-data. In particular, we focus on more than 1.5M tweets collected on the day of the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States of America. We use the meta-data embedd…

2017-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

MGM improves media profiling by integrating textual and structural features.

problem Evaluating the bias and factuality of news media from digital data.
method MediaGraphMind (MGM) framework using variational EM, integrating textual and structural features.
result Achieves new state-of-the-art results in media profiling.

Computer Vision and machine learning methods were previously used to reveal screen presence of genders in TV and movies. In this work, using head pose, gender detection, and skin color estimation techniques, we demonstrate that the gender disparity in TV in a South Asian country such as Bangladesh exhibits unique chara…

2017-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This study shows how trade policy uncertainty affects stock-T bill correlations.

problem The impact of trade policy uncertainty on stock-T bill relationships.
method Extended Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) framework incorporating exogenous variables.
result Trade policy uncertainty significantly alters stock-T bill correlations, especially under specific political conditions.

BERT models can classify multilingual party manifestos across different dimensions.

problem Costly manual annotation of large corpora in social science.
method Domain transfer across geographical locations, languages, time, and genre using fine-tuned transformer models.
result BERT models can be applied to future data with similar performance.

Derives a Matern Gaussian process on hypergraphs for regression and embedding.

problem Regression and embedding of vertices in hypergraphs with uncertainty.
method Derives a Matern Gaussian process on hypergraphs, embeds vertices into latent space, identifies inducing vertices for scalable inference.
result Enables estimation of regression models with hypergraph structure informed correlation and uncertainty.