Hawks and Doves: Financial Market Perception of Western Support for Ukraine

41 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2023

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Matthias Neuenkirch

University of Trier - Faculty of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Maria Repko

Centre for Economic Strategy

Enzo Weber

University of Regensburg; Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB); Osteuropa-Institut (OEI)

Date Written: January 30, 2023

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Conflict, Event Study, Financial Markets, News, Russia, Sanctions, Ukraine

JEL Classification: G14, H56

Suggested Citation

Neuenkirch, Matthias and Repko, Maria and Weber, Enzo, Hawks and Doves: Financial Market Perception of Western Support for Ukraine (January 30, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4342451 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4342451

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