Government interventions such as bailouts are often implemented in times of high uncertainty. Policymakers may therefore rely on information from financial markets to guide their decisions. We propose a model in which a policymaker learns from market activity and where market participants have...

This paper examines how online interaction between firm management and investors impacts stock price crash risk. Based on the previous literature, we postulate that online interaction constrains crash risk via two channels, i.e., deterring bad news hoarding activities of managers and decreasing...

This is the internet appendix for "High Frequency News in the European Financial Crisis". The paper "High Frequency News in the European Financial Crisis" to which this Appendix applies is available at: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2572597' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2572597

How can fire sales for financial assets happen when the economy contains well capitalized, but non-specialist investors? Our explanation combines rational expectations equilibrium and "lemons" models. When specialist (informed) market participants are liquidity-constrained, prices become less...

I perform textual analysis on high frequency (intraday) news articles. Selected articles are related to Euro-zone periphery crisis-affected countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain). News pessimism affects stock returns negatively and volatility positively. Media pessimism does not...

We attempt a connection between three entities: Extreme Stock Market Returns, the Web Attention factor and a set of News Flow factors, for three groups of countries during the European Financial Crisis: the Euro-periphery countries, the Euro-core countries, and the major European Union - but not...

Fair value refers to current values as the backbones of accounting measurements. Current value follows the efficient financial market (EFM) hypothesis - which abstracts away from economic realization - as guidance for the financial market investment process through ignorance and hazard. This...

We study the implications of information technology (IT) in banking for financial stability, using data on US banks' IT equipment and the tech-background of their executives. We find that one standard deviation higher pre-crisis IT adoption led to 10% fewer non-performing loans during the global...

Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...