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Systematic mispricing primarily affects speculative stocks and predominantly results in overpricing, predicting lower average returns. Because speculative stocks overlap with stocks deemed risky by rational models, failing to control for exposure to systematic mispricing can bias tests of...
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Long-short anomaly returns are strongly related to the day of the week. Anomalies for which the speculative leg is the short (long) leg experience the highest (lowest) returns on Monday. The opposite pattern is observed on Fridays. The effects are large; Monday (Friday) alone accounts for over...
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Sentiment should exhibit its strongest effects on asset prices at times when valuations are most subjective. Consistent … ability of sentiment for market returns by two to four times relative to when uncertainty is at its mean. We find similar … evidence for the cross-section of returns; the predictive ability of sentiment for returns of test assets expected to be most …
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … groups to anticipate correctly economic growth and excess stock returns is not identical, implying that not all sentiment is …
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … groups to anticipate correctly economic growth and excess stock returns is not identical, implying that not all sentiment is …
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … groups to anticipate correctly economic growth and excess stock returns is not identical, implying that not all sentiment is …
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Hard-to-value stocks provide opportunities for managers to exploit their informational advantage through trading on their firms' and their own personal accounts. In contrast to the prediction that such transactions reflect private information about future events, they are contrarian and heavily...
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This study investigates the informational role of thin options markets, specifically the Spanish options market. Firstly, we examine the effect of options markets by analysing stock market reaction to earnings news, conditional on the availability of options markets. Secondly, we examine options...
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Existing research shows that members of Congress made informed trades prior to the passage of the STOCK Act of 2012. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on non-public information. However, the question of whether...
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