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Do Presidential Elections Affect Stock Market Returns In Nigeria?

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  • Shehu U.R. Aliyu

    (Department of Economics, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria)

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Evidences thrive on the effects of political regimes and presidential elections on stock market returns. This paper investigates the effects of presidential elections on stock returns around the election periods at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) market. A sample of five (5) months each for a total of six (6) presidential elections held between 1999 and 2019 was employed. Returns were calculated using daily closing prices of NSE’s all share index (ASI). Afterwards, the regime heteroskedastic Markov switching model was found fit for the data. Empirical results typify the daily stock returns in terms of bear (low) and bull (high) regimes. Bear regime (1) leads across the 6 election horizons with lower volatility while the bull regime (2) records higher volatility in addition to more positive returns. Specifically, presidential election impacts positively on stock returns only during the 2011 election. Besides, findings show that stock market returns during presidential elections when the PDP government was in office were bearish whereas the market returns were bullish for elections held when the APC government was in office. To achieve stability in the market and the economy at large, restraints on the side of fiscal authority and setting limits on election/campaign spending could help in forestalling upheavals in the market around presidential elections in Nigeria.

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  • Shehu U.R. Aliyu, 2019. "Do Presidential Elections Affect Stock Market Returns In Nigeria?," West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration, West African Monetary Institute, vol. 19(1), pages 40-56, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wam:journl:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:40-56
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    1. Aliyu, Shehu Usman Rano, 2020. "What have we learnt from modelling stock returns in Nigeria: Higgledy-piggledy?," MPRA Paper 110382, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 06 Jun 2021.
    2. Yaya, OlaOluwa S & Adekoya, Oluwasegun B. & Adesiyan, Femi, 2020. "The Persistence of Stock Market Returns during the Presidential elections in Nigeria," MPRA Paper 99390, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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