This paper explores the impact of Kodak’s announcements of ventures into the cryptocurrency and pharmaceutical industries on market sentiment and investor emotions. Evaluating social media data using novel sentiment analysis techniques, we find that emotions such as excitement, mania, anxiety,...

To increase understanding of the real world of the fund manager, the authors apply principles from emotional finance. They report their findings from analysing in-depth interviews of 52 traditional and quantitative-oriented equity managers. In particular, they examine the importance of...

Between June 2005 and October 2007, when it peaked, the Chinese stock market rose five-fold. It then went into free fall losing 70% of its value over the following year, more than China’s total GDP. A similar trajectory played out between July 2014 and January 2016.This paper describes the...

Between June 2005 and October 2007, when it peaked, the Chinese stockmarket went up five-fold; it then went into freefall losing 70% of its value over the following year. Such a market price trajectory represents that of a classic stockmarket bubble. This paper seeks to explain what was going on...