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title: Govt. Spending & Industry Stars
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5148873/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5148873
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5148873
featured: 2025-03-05
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Govt. Spending & Industry Stars

The article reveals that firms with large, persistent government spending contracts earn abnormal returns and gain market share, resulting in increased profitability and rising industry status.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5148873
- Identifier: SSRN 5148873
- Released: 2025-02-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 87 (2025-03-05): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-03-05/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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