The impact of 11/13 Paris terrorist attacks on stock prices: evidence from the international defence industry

ABSTRACT

This study explores the effect of the Paris terrorist attacks on the stock returns and the volatility for the most important companies in the global defence industry. To this end, it employs the General Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity methodology. The findings clearly indicate that this terrorist event has a positive impact on both the returns and the volatility of these stocks.

KEYWORDS:

• Paris terrorist attacks
• stock returns
• defence industry
• GARCH model

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• G15

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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