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investors contribute to price efficiency by the speedy interpretation of public information …
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This paper uses a dataset of more than 900,000 news stories to test whether news predicts stock returns. We measure sentiment with the Harvard psychosocial dictionary used by Tetlock, Saar-Tsechansky, and Macskassy (2008), the financial dictionary of Loughran and McDonald (2011), and a...
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equity returns once complemented with relevant information about oil supply and global economic activity. Using a structural …
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In an environment where capital market participants collectively possess superior information about a decision faced by … information to the manager through stock price. We do so in a setting in which an inherent conflict exists between pricing that … communicates information to the manager and pricing that accurately values the firm given the manager's optimal response to the …
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Define the number of buy-sell “switching points” as the number of times that individual traders change the direction of their trading. Based on the hypothesis that switching points take place in business time, market microstructure invariance predicts that the aggregate number of switching...
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We define the concept of Information Quality (InfoQ) as the potential of a dataset to achieve a specific (scientific or …
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(ICWs) make suboptimal acquisition decisions based on poor quality information generated by their ineffective controls over …
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We document a little-known source of information exploited by sophisticated institutional investors: the Freedom of … Information Act (FOIA), a law that allows for the disclosure of previously unreleased information by the U.S. Government. Through … FOIA requests, we identify several sophisticated institutional investors, chiefly hedge funds, that request information …
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recapitalizations. A substitution of debt for equity in the firm's capital structure concentrates private information in the remaining …
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testing the role of private information in corporate finance …
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