This paper examines cross regional differences in news tone, for the same news event, and relates it to trading activity of local and non-local investors. Using a combination of detailed investor and media data the results show that when news, particularly locally sourced news, is republished...

This paper examines cross regional differences in tone for the same news event and relates it to local trading activity. Using a combination of detailed investor and media data the paper shows that local individual investors seem to be significant net buyers of local stocks that are in the local...