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,...

We investigate whether gambling-motivated retail trading generates mispricing among firms with extreme negative news. Employing a novel accounting-based measure of failure propensity conveyed by the going-concern (GC) audit opinions, we show that gambling-induced trading in GC firms with...

IR professionals argue that good investor relations contributes to the “fair valuation of firms”. We test the proposition that effective communication of accounting and other firm-specific information enhances firm value directly employing a unique and large database of firms nominated for...

Recently developed corporate bankruptcy prediction models adopt a contingent claims valuation approach. However, despite their theoretical appeal, tests of their performance compared with traditional simple accounting-ratio-based approaches are limited in the literature. We find the two...

Purpose – This paper aims to help explain the rapid growth in aggregate hedge fund assets under management until June 2008 followed by their subsequent dramatic collapse in terms of the conflicting emotions such investment vehicles evoke, and, from this, to consider the implications of the...

This study explores whether security analysts recognize firms’ going-concern problems and report appropriately to investors. We find that analysts signal their anticipation of the publication of a going-concern modified (GCM) audit report in two ways: 1) they downgrade more aggressively stock...

"This paper brings together the evidence on two asset pricing anomalies-continuation of prior returns (momentum) and the market mispricing of distressed firms-using UK data. Our analysis demonstrates both these effects are driven by market underreaction to financial distress risk. In particular,...