Arbeitspapier

Hawks and doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the West has been intensively discussing its support strategy. Hawkish positions of strengthening Ukraine via armaments, financial resources, and sanctions against Russia compete with dovish views of avoiding further escalation of the military and geopolitical conflict. News from the war became a dominating factor for international politics and the world economy. In this paper, we analyse how international financial markets perceived this news, especially on Western positions. We create a comprehensive data set of news related to the war and measure reactions of five key financial markets. The results show that stronger support for Ukraine had a negative impact in the first weeks of the war. Thus, financial markets seem to have perceived it as a risk of further escalation threatening global economic activity. However, we find the perceptions strongly changed when the Ukrainian position in the war improved. Since that time, a hawkish line was a positive signal for financial markets. The results also confirm that the war and escalation in general had harmful effects on international financial markets.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 1/2023

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
National Security and War
Thema
Conflict
Event Study
Financial Markets
News
Russia
Sanctions
Ukraine

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Neuenkirch, Matthias
Repko, Maria
Weber, Enzo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
(wo)
Nürnberg
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.48720/IAB.DP.2301
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Neuenkirch, Matthias
  • Repko, Maria
  • Weber, Enzo
  • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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