“…Moreover, they found that risk rates gathered from ICRG are reliable estimators of political events and can be used as political proxies. Moreover, many studies use ICRG dataset, some of them being: Bekaert et al (2014), Belkhir et al (2018), Chow et al (2019), Filippou et al (2018), Hoti (2005), Huang et al (2015), Suleman and Berka (2017), Gao et al (2020), Gregory (2019), Cooray and Dzhumashev (2018), Braga-Alves (2018), Li and Tanna (2019), Mshelia and Anchor (2019), Gakpa (2019), Flores Mendez (2018, Pulok and Ahmed (2017), Chen et al (2016), Randrianarisoa et al (2015), Law et al (2013), Meyer and Habanabakize (2018), Sekkat and Veganzones-Varoudakis (2007), Tuncay (2018), Ayaydın et al (2016), Kaya (2019), Kök et al (2015), Şanlısoy and Kök (2010), Oral and Yılmaz (2017), Topal and Gül (2016), Tükenmez and Kutay (2016), Yapraklı and Güngör (2007), İltaş and Üçler (2019), Üçler and Uysal (2017), Kartal and Öztürk (2017), Yılmaz and Meydan (2019), Üçler (2017) and İltaş (2020).…”