Political Risk Resilience: Inferring Firm-Specific Transmission of Political Shocks

Author: Scott R. Siler

Working Paper | May 2026

Political Risk Resilience (PRR) helps investors and companies understand how specific political shocks translate into firm-level business risk. Instead of assigning a broad political risk score, PRR tests whether individual companies show repeatable patterns of stress, opportunity, or neutrality when exposed to events like sanctions, trade policy changes, export controls, regulatory shifts, or geopolitical disruption. The result is a practical map of which risks matter for which firms, where the market response is backed by evidence, andwhere leaders should avoid chasing every headline.

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A concise field manual for professionals building careers in political risk—emphasizing judgment, positioning, and decision-making under uncertainty rather than academic theory.

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