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I examine the role of investor attention on seasoned equity offerings' (SEOs) outcomes. I use an archive of Thomson Reuters' news articles and third-party newswires to proxy for investor attention. I find that the volumes of news articles prior to the offerings are positively associated with the...
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idiosyncratic volatility is from its function as a limit arbitrage. Our evidence incorporating firm specific news is inconsistent … news volatility (volatility contemporaneous to news announcements) should be stronger than that of non-news volatility … (volatility without an identified news announcement). We find the opposite. Non-news volatility has robust negative price and …
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We estimate the relative signal jump variance (RSJV) as the difference between the realized positive half-variance and negative half-variance divided by the realized variance using high-frequency intraday data and investigate its role in the cross-sectional pricing in the Chinese stock market....
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We study the trading behavior of individual investors in leverage bank-issued products around earnings announcements. The trading activity increases substantially around earnings announcements. Aggregated individual investor trading is strongly correlated, both pre- and post event. We find...
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Recent advances in natural language processing have contributed to the development of market sentiment measures through text content analysis in news providers and social media. The effectiveness of these sentiment variables depends on the implemented techniques and the type of source on which...
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We analyze a firm's choice between dividend payments and stock repurchases under heterogeneous beliefs and the subsequent long-term stock return performance of firms adopting the two forms of payout. Firm insiders, owning a certain fraction of its equity, choose between paying out its cash...
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We find that seasoned equity issuers who pay more in underwriting costs are associated with larger improvements in investor recognition, greater contemporaneous increases in firm value, and larger declines in illiquidity risk. We identify increased analyst following as an important channel...
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This paper investigates market-level and private investor trading patterns and performance around earnings announcements. We document clear evidence for abnormal trading around earnings announcements for both the entire market and households in Germany and observe that private investor...
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This study finds that market's underreaction to good news is a driver of Gutierrez and Kelly's (2008) weekly momentum returns. By employing a dataset of 10.1 million news items in four regions (the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific), we find that stocks having important and positive news...
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In this paper, we examine the economic value of a text-based measure of financial integration. Our attention measure of financial integration is a strong positive predictor of currency excess returns. Specifically, the financial integration measure is positively priced in the cross-section of...
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