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This paper studies information blockages and the asymmetric release of information in a security market with fixed …) a lack of correspondence between large price changes and the arrival of external information, and 3) increases in …
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accruals contain information about changes in discount rates, or that firms manage earnings in response to market …
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Psychological evidence and casual intuition predict that sunny weather is associated with upbeat mood. This paper examines the relation between morning sunshine at a country's leading stock exchange and market index stock returns that day at 26 stock exchanges internationally from 1982-97....
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If investors have limited attention, then accounting outcomes that saliently highlight positive aspects of a firm's performance will promote high market valuations. When cumulative accounting value added (net operating income) over time outstrips cumulative cash value added (free cash flow), it...
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This paper models firms' choices between alternative means of presenting information, and the effects of different …
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Prevailing models of capital markets capture a limited form of social influence and information transmission, in which … the beliefs and behavior of an investor affect others only through market price, information transmission and processing …. Social influence is central to how information and investor sentiment are transmitted, so thought and behavior contagion …
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Psychological evidence indicates that it is hard to process multiple stimuli and perform multiple tasks at the same time. This paper tests the investor distraction hypothesis, which holds that the arrival of extraneous news causes trading and market prices to react sluggishly to relevant news...
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ability to evaluate securities, in the sense that they overestimate the precision of their private information signals. The … implies overreaction to private information arrival and underreaction to public information arrival. This is consistent with …
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We review theory and evidence relating to herd behavior, payoff and reputational interactions, social learning, and informational cascades in capital markets. We offer a simple taxonomy of effects, and evaluate how alternative theories may help explain evidence on the behavior of investors,...
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over-reaction to different earnings components. Investor neglect of information in current-period earnings about future …, accruals, cash flows, and pro fit anomalies to the forecasting power of current earnings-related information for future … earnings, the degree of investor attention to different types of information, and the volatilities of and correlation between …
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