Front Matter Page
Research Department
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Measuring Social Unrest
2.1 Identifying social unrest events from daily media reports
2.2 Validation
3 Data and Methodology
3.1 Data
3.2 Event-study approach
3.3 Regression analysis
3.4 Control variable regression
4 Main results
4.1 Cumulative abnormal returns
4.2 Regression results
4.3 Heterogeneities: duration and income
4.4 The role of institutions
4.5 The role of elections
5 Robustness checks
6 Discussion
7 Conclusion
Appendix