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Using Internet search volume for lottery to capture gambling sentiment shifts, we show that when the overall gambling …-ownership firms, headquartered in regions where gambling is more acceptable and local bias is stronger. These results support the view … that gambling sentiment has a spillover effect on the stock market …
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Considering the strong gambling preference of retail investors in emerging markets and using the data of Chinese A …-share listed companies from 2000 to 2018, this paper constructs an index of investor's gambling preference based on the theory of … explicit preference and develops a factor model to capture the risk premium of gambling by introducing gambling factors. The …
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Periods of economic turmoil distort the ability of stock prices to reflect the available information. In the last three decades, emerging markets experienced numerous crises. The major three of them are the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-1998), Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009) and Global...
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This study investigates whether firm opacity impacts the investment behaviors and outcomes of retail investors using the fintech brokerage Robinhood (i.e., “RH investors”). We theorize that higher firm opacity leads RH investors to make nonrational investment decisions. The testable...
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Stock prices occasionally move in response to unverified rumors. I propose a cheap talk model in which a rumormonger's incentives to tell the truth depend on the interaction between her investment horizon and the information acquisition decisions of message-receiving investors. The model's key...
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Purpose This study delves into the nuanced implications of short-sale constraints on stock prices within the context of stock market efficiency. While existing research has explored this relationship, inconsistencies persist in their findings. The purpose of this study is to conduct a...
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This paper examines the problem of information asymmetry between foreign, local, institutional and individual investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) for the period 2004-2011. Using monthly returns for individual companies listed on BVB, stock market indices during the seven years...
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I discover that investors' preferences for gambling mainly involve stocks that have performed poorly in the past three …
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This paper provides some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect (one of the best known anomalies in financial markets) in Ukrainian futures prices. The analysis uses various statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t-test, dummy variables, and fractional integration) to test for...
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Contrary to the theoretical principle that higher risk is compensated with higher expected return, the literature shows that low-risk stocks outperform high-risk stocks. Using a large-scale household dataset, we provide an explanation for this puzzling result that the anomalous negative...
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