Political News and Stock Prices: The Case of Saddam Hussein Contracts

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Using Markets to Inform Policy: The Case of the Iraq War (2009, unknown): “In a study that dates after we circulated ours, Amihud and Wohl (2004) examined the effect of Saddam contracts on stock prices, oil prices and exchange rates and also found that the effects of the pre-war period were reversed after the war broke out.”
The economic effects of violent conflict: Evidence from asset market reactions (2005, background): “Under standard statistical assumptions the null hypothesis (3) can be tested exploiting the fact that the standardized CAR has a known small-sample distribution:”
Systematic risk, and oil price and exchange rate sensitivities in Asia-Pacific stock markets (2007, background): “More recently, Aminduh and Wohl (2004) examine the relationship between stock prices and political news related to Saddam Hussein’s oil contracts.”
Diversifying away the Risk of War and Cross-Border Political Crisis (2017, background): “Amihud and Wohl (2004) argue that once military action started, the increasing likelihood of Saddam’s fall could be viewed as good news, because it signified a swift end to the conflict.”