Movements in stock prices provide important clues for understanding the effect of campaign contributions on the decisions of elected officials. What they tell us challenges widespread beliefs about corporate donations and political favoritism.

Jeffrey Milyo is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
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Other Independent Review articles by Jeffrey Milyo
Spring 1999 The Political Economics of Campaign Finance