This study examines the relationship between positive and negative investor sentiments and stock market returns and volatility in Group of 20 countries using variousmethods, including panel regression with fixed effec...This study examines the relationship between positive and negative investor sentiments and stock market returns and volatility in Group of 20 countries using variousmethods, including panel regression with fixed effects, panel quantile regressions, apanel vector autoregression (PVAR) model, and country-specific regressions. We proxyfor negative and positive investor sentiments using the Google Search Volume Indexfor terms related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and COVID-19 vaccine, respectively. Using weekly data from March 2020 to May 2021, we document significantrelationships between positive and negative investor sentiments and stock marketreturns and volatility. Specifically, an increase in positive investor sentiment leads toan increase in stock returns while negative investor sentiment decreases stock returnsat lower quantiles. The effect of investor sentiment on volatility is consistent acrossthe distribution: negative sentiment increases volatility, whereas positive sentimentreduces volatility. These results are robust as they are corroborated by Granger causalitytests and a PVAR model. The findings may have portfolio implications as they indicatethat proxies for positive and negative investor sentiments seem to be good predictorsof stock returns and volatility during the pandemic.展开更多
Our research on private placement of equity on China capital market reveals that firms prefer to equity financing when their stock price is overvalued and investor sentiment is high,following the market timing hypothe...Our research on private placement of equity on China capital market reveals that firms prefer to equity financing when their stock price is overvalued and investor sentiment is high,following the market timing hypothesis.However,after private issuance,we document a significant positive abnormal return within three years.We believe firms choose to polish their financial statement before the exit of institutional investors and controlling shareholders.Through manipulation of discretional accruals,firms improve the profitability and market valuation,and help institutional investors and controlling shareholders obtain the abnormal return after private placement of equity.Nevertheless,such manipulation cannot be sustained and will do harm to other investors in the long-term.展开更多
Understanding the irrational sentiments of the market participants is necessary for making good investment decisions.Despite the recent academic effort to examine the role of investors’sentiments in market dynamics,t...Understanding the irrational sentiments of the market participants is necessary for making good investment decisions.Despite the recent academic effort to examine the role of investors’sentiments in market dynamics,there is a lack of consensus in delineating the structural aspect of market sentiments.This research is an attempt to address this gap.The study explores the role of irrational investors’sentiments in determining stock market volatility.By employing monthly data on market-related implicit indices,we constructed an irrational sentiment index using principal component analysis.This sentiment index was modelled in the GARCH and Granger causality framework to analyse its contribution to volatility.The results showed that irrational sentiment significantly causes excess market volatility.Moreover,the study indicates that the asymmetrical aspects of an inefficient market contribute to excess volatility and returns.The findings are crucial for retail investors as well as portfolio managers seeking to make an optimum portfolio to maximise profits.展开更多
This paper examines the proxy variables of investor sentiment in Chinese stock market carefully, and tries to construct an investor sentiment index indirectly. We use cross correlation analysis to examine lead-lag rel...This paper examines the proxy variables of investor sentiment in Chinese stock market carefully, and tries to construct an investor sentiment index indirectly. We use cross correlation analysis to examine lead-lag relationship between the proxy variables and HS300 index. The results show that net added accounts (NAA), SSE share turnover (TURN), and closed-end fund discount (CEFD) are leading variables to stock market. The average first day return of IPOs (RIPO) and relative degree of active trading in equity market (RDAT) are contemporary variables, while number of IPOs (NIPO) is a lagging variable of stock market. Using the sentiment proxy variables with most possible leading order, and forward selection stepwise regression method, the empirical results on monthly stock returns reveal that three leading proxy variables can be used to form a sentiment index. And the out of sample tests prove that this sentiment index has good predictive power of Chinese stock market, and it is robust.展开更多
In view of the breakthrough progress of the depth learning method in image and other fields,this paper attempts to introduce the depth learning method into stock price forecasting to provide investors with reasonable ...In view of the breakthrough progress of the depth learning method in image and other fields,this paper attempts to introduce the depth learning method into stock price forecasting to provide investors with reasonable investment suggestions.This paper proposes a stock prediction hybrid model named ISI-CNN-LSTM considering investor sentiment based on the combination of long short-term memory(LSTM) and convolutional neural network(CNN).The model adopts an end-to-end network structure,using LSTM to extract the temporal features in the data and CNN to mine the deep features in the data can effectively improve the prediction ability of the model by increasing investor sentiment in the network structure.The empirical part makes a comparative experimental analysis based on Shanghai stock index in China.By comparing the experimental prediction results and evaluation indicators,it verifies the prediction effectiveness and feasibility of ISI-CNN-LSTM network model.展开更多
Using data of newly opened stock trading accounts in China as a proxy of investor sentiment index, the authors employ the time-varying copula-GARCH model with Hansen's skewed Student-t innovations to investigate the ...Using data of newly opened stock trading accounts in China as a proxy of investor sentiment index, the authors employ the time-varying copula-GARCH model with Hansen's skewed Student-t innovations to investigate the dynamic dependence between investor sentiment and stock returns. The empirical findings show that shifts in investor sentiment are asymptotically positively correlated to stock returns in extreme value situations in both A shares market and B shares market in China, that is to say, stock prices will increase (decrease) more when investors become more bullish (bearish). Also, results show that the dependence between investor sentiment and stock returns is time-varying, which means that the traditional Pearson's correlation based on normal distribution is not enough to describe the relationship between stock market behavior and investor behavior.展开更多
According to behavioral finance theory, investor sentiment generally exists in investors’ trading activities and influences financial market. In order to investigate the interaction between investor sentiment and sto...According to behavioral finance theory, investor sentiment generally exists in investors’ trading activities and influences financial market. In order to investigate the interaction between investor sentiment and stock market as well as financial industry, this study decomposed investor sentiment, stock price index and SWS index of financial industry into IMF components at different scales by using BEMD algorithm. Moreover, the fluctuation characteristics of time series at different time scales were extracted, and the IMF components were reconstructed into short-term high-frequency components, medium-term important event low-frequency components and long-term trend components. The short-term interaction between investor sentiment and Shanghai Composite Index, Shenzhen Component Index and financial industries represented by SWS index was investigated based on the spillover index. The time difference correlation coefficient was employed to determine the medium-term and long-term correlation among variables. Results demonstrate that investor sentiment has a strong correlation with Shanghai Composite Index, Shenzhen Component Index and different financial industries represented by SWS index at the original scale, and the change of investor sentiment is mainly influenced by external market information. The interaction between most markets at the short-term scale is weaker than that at the original scale. Investor sentiment is more significantly correlated with SWS Bond, SWS Diversified Finance and Shanghai Composite Index at the long-term scale than that at the medium-term scale.展开更多
This paper builds the structure of the vector autoregression( SVAR) model short-term constraints and studies the interactive mechanism of investor sentiment,monetary policy and stock market from 2008 to 2016. The resu...This paper builds the structure of the vector autoregression( SVAR) model short-term constraints and studies the interactive mechanism of investor sentiment,monetary policy and stock market from 2008 to 2016. The result finds that investor sentiment, currency liquidity and stock market gains a significant asymmetric effect. First,the interaction effects of investor sentiment and stock market are positive feedback mechanism, and investor sentiment significantly affects the stock market in the short term. Furthermore,monetary policy and stock market has a positive role in promoting each other. Finally, investor sentiment shows negative feedback mechanism of monetary policy.展开更多
文摘This study examines the relationship between positive and negative investor sentiments and stock market returns and volatility in Group of 20 countries using variousmethods, including panel regression with fixed effects, panel quantile regressions, apanel vector autoregression (PVAR) model, and country-specific regressions. We proxyfor negative and positive investor sentiments using the Google Search Volume Indexfor terms related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and COVID-19 vaccine, respectively. Using weekly data from March 2020 to May 2021, we document significantrelationships between positive and negative investor sentiments and stock marketreturns and volatility. Specifically, an increase in positive investor sentiment leads toan increase in stock returns while negative investor sentiment decreases stock returnsat lower quantiles. The effect of investor sentiment on volatility is consistent acrossthe distribution: negative sentiment increases volatility, whereas positive sentimentreduces volatility. These results are robust as they are corroborated by Granger causalitytests and a PVAR model. The findings may have portfolio implications as they indicatethat proxies for positive and negative investor sentiments seem to be good predictorsof stock returns and volatility during the pandemic.
文摘Our research on private placement of equity on China capital market reveals that firms prefer to equity financing when their stock price is overvalued and investor sentiment is high,following the market timing hypothesis.However,after private issuance,we document a significant positive abnormal return within three years.We believe firms choose to polish their financial statement before the exit of institutional investors and controlling shareholders.Through manipulation of discretional accruals,firms improve the profitability and market valuation,and help institutional investors and controlling shareholders obtain the abnormal return after private placement of equity.Nevertheless,such manipulation cannot be sustained and will do harm to other investors in the long-term.
文摘Understanding the irrational sentiments of the market participants is necessary for making good investment decisions.Despite the recent academic effort to examine the role of investors’sentiments in market dynamics,there is a lack of consensus in delineating the structural aspect of market sentiments.This research is an attempt to address this gap.The study explores the role of irrational investors’sentiments in determining stock market volatility.By employing monthly data on market-related implicit indices,we constructed an irrational sentiment index using principal component analysis.This sentiment index was modelled in the GARCH and Granger causality framework to analyse its contribution to volatility.The results showed that irrational sentiment significantly causes excess market volatility.Moreover,the study indicates that the asymmetrical aspects of an inefficient market contribute to excess volatility and returns.The findings are crucial for retail investors as well as portfolio managers seeking to make an optimum portfolio to maximise profits.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.71003004 and 71373001
文摘This paper examines the proxy variables of investor sentiment in Chinese stock market carefully, and tries to construct an investor sentiment index indirectly. We use cross correlation analysis to examine lead-lag relationship between the proxy variables and HS300 index. The results show that net added accounts (NAA), SSE share turnover (TURN), and closed-end fund discount (CEFD) are leading variables to stock market. The average first day return of IPOs (RIPO) and relative degree of active trading in equity market (RDAT) are contemporary variables, while number of IPOs (NIPO) is a lagging variable of stock market. Using the sentiment proxy variables with most possible leading order, and forward selection stepwise regression method, the empirical results on monthly stock returns reveal that three leading proxy variables can be used to form a sentiment index. And the out of sample tests prove that this sentiment index has good predictive power of Chinese stock market, and it is robust.
基金Supported by Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems(20200103)Doctoral Research Start-Up Fund of Anhui University of Finance&Economics(85051)。
文摘In view of the breakthrough progress of the depth learning method in image and other fields,this paper attempts to introduce the depth learning method into stock price forecasting to provide investors with reasonable investment suggestions.This paper proposes a stock prediction hybrid model named ISI-CNN-LSTM considering investor sentiment based on the combination of long short-term memory(LSTM) and convolutional neural network(CNN).The model adopts an end-to-end network structure,using LSTM to extract the temporal features in the data and CNN to mine the deep features in the data can effectively improve the prediction ability of the model by increasing investor sentiment in the network structure.The empirical part makes a comparative experimental analysis based on Shanghai stock index in China.By comparing the experimental prediction results and evaluation indicators,it verifies the prediction effectiveness and feasibility of ISI-CNN-LSTM network model.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.70821001
文摘Using data of newly opened stock trading accounts in China as a proxy of investor sentiment index, the authors employ the time-varying copula-GARCH model with Hansen's skewed Student-t innovations to investigate the dynamic dependence between investor sentiment and stock returns. The empirical findings show that shifts in investor sentiment are asymptotically positively correlated to stock returns in extreme value situations in both A shares market and B shares market in China, that is to say, stock prices will increase (decrease) more when investors become more bullish (bearish). Also, results show that the dependence between investor sentiment and stock returns is time-varying, which means that the traditional Pearson's correlation based on normal distribution is not enough to describe the relationship between stock market behavior and investor behavior.
基金Supported by Special Project for Soft Science Research of Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Plan(202150302410011)。
文摘According to behavioral finance theory, investor sentiment generally exists in investors’ trading activities and influences financial market. In order to investigate the interaction between investor sentiment and stock market as well as financial industry, this study decomposed investor sentiment, stock price index and SWS index of financial industry into IMF components at different scales by using BEMD algorithm. Moreover, the fluctuation characteristics of time series at different time scales were extracted, and the IMF components were reconstructed into short-term high-frequency components, medium-term important event low-frequency components and long-term trend components. The short-term interaction between investor sentiment and Shanghai Composite Index, Shenzhen Component Index and financial industries represented by SWS index was investigated based on the spillover index. The time difference correlation coefficient was employed to determine the medium-term and long-term correlation among variables. Results demonstrate that investor sentiment has a strong correlation with Shanghai Composite Index, Shenzhen Component Index and different financial industries represented by SWS index at the original scale, and the change of investor sentiment is mainly influenced by external market information. The interaction between most markets at the short-term scale is weaker than that at the original scale. Investor sentiment is more significantly correlated with SWS Bond, SWS Diversified Finance and Shanghai Composite Index at the long-term scale than that at the medium-term scale.
文摘This paper builds the structure of the vector autoregression( SVAR) model short-term constraints and studies the interactive mechanism of investor sentiment,monetary policy and stock market from 2008 to 2016. The result finds that investor sentiment, currency liquidity and stock market gains a significant asymmetric effect. First,the interaction effects of investor sentiment and stock market are positive feedback mechanism, and investor sentiment significantly affects the stock market in the short term. Furthermore,monetary policy and stock market has a positive role in promoting each other. Finally, investor sentiment shows negative feedback mechanism of monetary policy.