Political Uncertainty and IPO Activity: Evidence from U.S. Gubernatorial Elections

By Gonul Colak, Artyom Durnev, Yiming Qian. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017

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The pandemic and economic policy uncertainty (2020, background): “Further, higher levels of political uncertainty lead to fewer IPOs and lower prices (Colak et al., 2017).”
Does policy uncertainty affect mergers and acquisitions? (2017, neutral): “Prior literature shows that firms are less likely to raise equity through IPOs (Colak, Durnev, and Qian, 2016) and SEOs (Jens, 2016) during gubernatorial election years.”
The Bright Side of Political Uncertainty: The Case of R&D (2015, methodology): “For example, both Julio and Yook (2012) and Jens (2013) find th at the adverse effect of political uncertainty on firm investment is stronger in politically sens itive industries.”
Economic policy uncertainty and stock price crash risk (2020, background): “Brogaard and Detzel (2015); Kelly et al. (2016), and Colak et al. (2017) provide supporting empirical evidence.”