We assess the impact of the recent financial crisis and government interventions to ameliorate the ensuing recession on corporate bond returns through the lens of bond market reactions to news conveyed by changes in aggregate earnings as a proxy for changes in expected future cash flows and...

We explore the possibility that overnight returns can serve as a measure of firm-specific investor sentiment by analyzing whether they exhibit characteristics expected of a sentiment measure. First, we document short-term persistence in overnight returns, consistent with existing evidence of...