Parliamentary election news on the Norwegian stock market : Do Norwegian investors care about Parliamentary election results and election information?

Abstract

I have in this thesis used two different methods to look at the relationship between public available parliamentary election information and the Stock market in Norway. I’ve used the time frame between 1997 and 2017. I’ve developed several different political variables to see if there is a relationship between elections and the stock market. Some results have been significant, however most of the results are not significant indicating that politics doesn’t have much influence on the stock market.