Abstract :
This research aims to observe the reaction on the capital market on the two political events in 2014 which were the presidential election event and announcement of the working cabinet. Another purpose of this research is to investigate the information content and test the efficiency of the market , whether the Indonesian stock exchange has a semi-strong efficiency in the information or not
This research based on the secondary data collected from Indonesian stock exchange and yahoo finance website. The data that used in this research were the daily closing stock price, abnormal return, daily trading volume, and share trade. Samples of this research were stocks listed in the LQ-45 at Indonesian stock exchange. The study method used in the research covered were 5 days before and 5 days after the presidential election and 3 days before and 3 days after the announcement of working cabinet
The statistic test result showed that the abnormal return found in t-4,t-1,and t+5 in presidential elections period. However the average abnormal return did not differ before and after the announcement of both event presidential elections and announcement of working cabinets. The research also found average trading volume activity significant differ before and after the announcement of presidential elections.
Keyword: capital market reaction, event study, abnormal return, trading volume activity