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We develop and test a frog-in-the-pan (FIP) hypothesis that predicts investors are less attentive to information … arriving continuously in small amounts than to information with the same cumulative stock price implications arriving in large … than infrequent dramatic changes and construct an information discreteness measure to capture the intensity of firm …
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We test a frog-in-the-pan (FIP) hypothesis that predicts investors are inattentive to information arriving continuously … infrequent dramatic changes. Consistent with the FIP hypothesis, we find that continuous information induces strong persistent … continuous information during their formation period to -2.07% for stocks with discrete information but similar cumulative …
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of canonical models of gradual information diffusion and differences of opinion. I use a unique dataset of clicks on news … trading among investors who see the same news but disagree regarding its interpretation. Consistent with gradual information …
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Many postulated relations in finance imply that expected asset returns strictly increase in an underlying characteristic. To examine the validity of such a claim, one needs to take the entire range of the characteristic into account, as is done in the recent proposal of Patton and Timmermann...
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Many postulated relations in finance imply that expected asset returns should monotonically increase in a certain characteristic. To examine the validity of such a claim, one typically considers a finite number of return categories, ordered according to the underlying characteristic. A standard...
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Many postulated relations in finance imply that expected asset returns strictly increase in an underlying characteristic. To examine the validity of such a claim, one needs to take the entire range of the characteristic into account, as is done in the recent proposal of Patton and Timmermann...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747441
prominent as the size decreases. The study also shows that size is not having an impact on the information content of variables …. The information content is extremely important during crisis period …
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Many postulated relations in finance imply that expected asset returns strictly increase in an underlying characteristic. To examine the validity of such a claim, one needs to take the entire range of the characteristic into account, as is done in the recent proposal of Patton and Timmermann...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092850
We reveal a novel channel through which market participants' sentiment influences how they forecast stock returns: their optimism (pessimism) affects the weights they assign to fundamentals. Our analysis yields four main findings. First, if good (bad) “news” about dividends and interest...
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In this paper we address three main objections of behavioral finance to the theory of rational finance, considered as “anomalies” the theory of rational finance cannot explain: (i) Predictability of asset returns; (ii) The Equity Premium; (iii) The Volatility Puzzle. We offer resolutions of...
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