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We introduce a simple definition of carbon-intensive firms to measure institutional investors' exposure to the emission intensities of portfolio companies. The definition is based on major emission industry sectors identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). All firms in...
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different asset measurement methods aid investment decisions. Surprisingly, evidence of actual resource providers’ views on this … common measurement methods. Overall, we find a general inclination for more assets measured at market price or discounted … cash flows. However, we document considerable variation in measurement preferences based on the type of asset (e …
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We build an original market sentiment index based solely on changes over time in the number of different stocks held by individual investors. No prices, returns or trading volumes enter the definition. As a consequence, our index is not contaminated by liquidity concerns present in measures...
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The concept of fund manager herding has been studied in depth, and the most widely used measure applied to this market-wide phenomena is the one incepted in Lakonishok, Shleifer & Vishny (1992), LSV. However, this measure has been much criticized, and its validity is still in doubt. This paper...
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We build a new measure of investor sentiment only based on changes in diversification levels of individual investors' portfolios. The dynamics of the number of different stocks in portfolios is modelized as a Markov chain. We measure investor sentiment as the area above the cumulative...
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measurement approaches. First, based on empirical and simulation-based data, I show how results may differ across measures …
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Given the increasing interest in and the growing number of publicly available methods to estimate investor sentiment from social media platforms, researchers and practitioners alike are facing one crucial question - which is best to gauge investor sentiment? We compare the performance of daily...
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