This paper examines how different categories of COVID–19 news sentiment differentially impact the behavior of cryptocurrency returns. A nonlinear technique of transfer entropy is applied to investigate the relationship between the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and COVID–19...

Understanding the irrational sentiments of the market participants is necessary for making good investment decisions. Despite the recent academic effort to examine the role of investors’ sentiments in market dynamics, there is a lack of consensus in delineating the structural aspect of market...

We examine the effects of limited investor attention on stock returns by using Google search volume index to measure investor attention. We also investigate whether national culture and market development have any role in this relationship. We find that the impact of investor attention on stock...