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The study is to investigate the impact of the rotation of political party of Taiwan’s presidential election campaign on abnormal return of firms in Taiwan. Most of previous research has focused on the relationships of firms and parties which demonstrate different political arguments toward China policy and foreign affairs. This research provides another perspective on firms’ internationalization configuration to the research stream about impact of the change of political ruling party. We use event study method to test the proposed hypotheses in this study. Firms of machinery electric industry are employed as the sample and the data are generated from TEJ (Taiwan Economic Journal Financial Databank). The results show that the impact of rotation of political party of Taiwan’s presidential election campaigns, including 2000, and 2016, is statistically positively significant on the abnormal return of firms. However, the rotation of political party of Taiwan’s presidential election campaigns in 2008 is statistically negatively significant on the abnormal return of firms. Moreover, firms with higher degree of internationalization (DOI hereafter) can produce higher abnormal return than those with lower DOI. In addition, the signaling effect of the impact is stronger to firms of higher DOI than those with lower DOI. This paper can contribute to the research stream of rotation of political party, specifically igniting the role of a firm’s DOI, and can provide implications to the managers of firms and suggestions to the investors in Taiwan.
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