We study whether social media can play a negative information role by impeding price discovery in the presence of highly speculative rumors. We focus on merger rumors, where most do not materialize. We find that merger rumors accompanied by greater Twitter activity elicit greater immediate...

In this study, we analyzed 40 commercial bank annual reports from 2014 to 2021 to clarify the influence of tangible and intangible asset securitization on bank stock price bubbles, based on the banks’ preference for issuing asset securitization. The empirical findings show that tangible asset...