We study investor happiness in a panel survey of brokerage clients at a UK bank. When investors anticipate future happiness, they set their aspirations according to personal portfolio risk, objectives, investment horizon, con dence, and other individual characteristics. They are accurate in...

The betting market for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a thin financial market, which does not attract much interest from sports bettors. Given these characteristics, it is possible that profitable wagering strategies could exist for informed bettors of the WNBA. Using...

We show that immediate and delayed abnormal returns following earnings announcement surprises differ across market states. Immediate abnormal returns are more sensitive to earnings surprises in down markets, while delayed abnormal returns are less sensitive; underreaction is attenuated in down...

Relying on a comprehensive data set of news releases, we construct monthly firm-level news sentiment scores during the 2000–2016 period and document a news momentum phenomenon of stocks with more positive news in the past generating more positive news in the future. We propose three hypotheses...

The author identifies and explains asymmetric reactions in implied volatility of S&P 500 Index options across the term structure based on news sentiment. The asymmetry of the reaction is more pronounced for fear (proxied by put options) than for greed (proxied by call options). This asymmetry is...

We analyze the role that financial analysts play in the sentiment effect on stock prices. Causality analysis reveals that sentiment affects various aspects of the work of analysts. We show that experienced analysts are aware of sentiment, consciously incorporate it, and have some control over...

We survey the textual sentiment literature, comparing and contrasting the various information sources, content analysis methods, and empirical models that have been used to date. We summarize the important and influential findings about how textual sentiment impacts on individual, firm-level and...

We exploit a unique dataset to study how the information sets of retail and institutional investors evolve over time. In line with theoretical models of rational inattention, investors’ information set is related to their sophistication, with more sophisticated investors tracking more stocks....

Using survey-based explicit investor sentiment measures, this paper analyzes when investors' stock market expectations are a ffected by weather-induced mood. This study provides new insights into mood and decision making by directly comparing private and institutional investors. This paper shows...

We identify model-free mispricing factors and relate them to global stock prices and investor beliefs. The factors measure variation in the relative mispricing of closed-end funds and their underlying assets. We design three factors to reflect the beliefs and capital flows of important...