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Volatility is an important component of asset pricing; an increase in volatility on markets can trigger changes in the risk distribution of financial assets. In conventional financial theory, investors are considered to be rational and any changes in relevant risk are assumed to be a result of...
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According to several extended behavioral theories, value profits should mirror momentum profits, and vary over time. We … negative market return, the average so-called value premium is about three time its unconditional counterpart, whereas it … (momentum crashes) are contemporaneous with extreme value profits (value bubbles). Our results are robust to various time …
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Greed has been shown to be an important economic motive. Both the popular press as well as scientific papers have mentioned questionable practices by greedy bankers and investors as one of the root causes of the 2008 global financial crisis. In spite of these suggestions, there is as of yet no...
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Post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD) is one of the most solidly documented asset pricing anomalies. We use the controlled conditions of an experimental lab to investigate whether earnings autocorrelation is the driving cause of this anomaly. We observe PEAD in settings with uncorrelated and...
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This paper examines the effect of active attention from sophisticated market participants on managerial bad news hoarding. Using EDGAR search volume (ESV) as a direct measure, we find that, due to the increased cost of bad news disclosure, firms under greater active attention from sophisticated...
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, real cash flow expectations closely match aggregate bond and stock prices, leaving little room for time-varying discount …
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On financial markets, information is a highly demanded resource and processing it to (potentially) generate excess returns drives the activities of many market participants. Not surprisingly, this high relevance of information in markets culminates in a high research interest focusing on how...
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The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some academics have questioned whether EMH is...
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We study firm-level characteristics that a manager would employ as signalling tools in order to time the market (i … time-variation of the strategies providing a unique explanation for momentum crashes …
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This study shows how correlated information consumption (CIC) of retail investors relates to comovement in stock market outcomes. We construct clusters of stocks with CIC by employing network analysis on Google co-search data. We predict significant comovement in returns and liquidity of stocks...
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