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 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
The stock market is full of events that affect the sensitivity reaction of investors at a large scale. Individual investor sentiment is just like his/her personal feeling depending upon their nature, risk appetite, an...The stock market is full of events that affect the sensitivity reaction of investors at a large scale. Individual investor sentiment is just like his/her personal feeling depending upon their nature, risk appetite, and market scenario. This research study investigates the investors’ reaction in the stock market for the real estate segment during the massive market crisis in developing countries. Demonetisation of 2016 in India has been taken with the purpose of implementing a pilot study to analyse the overreaction and availability bias. The primary focus was on analysing how the investors react on the information of demonetisation and their pattern of investment in the stock market with a special emphasis on real estate sector where the effect of the event had dramatically changed the stock prices. Therefore, a pre- and post- analysis had been conducted to gauge the prices, sensitivity, and reaction of investors in the stock market. The reaction of the citizens after these events was found to be drastically affected. Five real estate companies had been focused upon in this study to examine the impact of investors’ overreaction owing to the demonetisation and their investment pattern for stocks during pre- and post- demonetisation period at that timeframe. The analysis was done on a shorter period of time so that the impact of overreaction and availability bias can be critically analysed. The paper thus exhibits how investor sentiments and reaction for stock preference had changed over time through statistical study.展开更多
Finance 3.0 is still in its infancy.Yet big data represents an unprecedented opportunity for finance.The massive increase in the volume of data generated by individuals every day on the Internet offers researchers the...Finance 3.0 is still in its infancy.Yet big data represents an unprecedented opportunity for finance.The massive increase in the volume of data generated by individuals every day on the Internet offers researchers the opportunity to approach the question of financial market predictability from a new perspective.In this article,we study the relationship between a well-known Twitter micro-blogging platform and the Tunisian financial market.In particular,we consider,over a 12-month period,Twitter volume and sentiment across the 22 stock companies that make up the Tunindex index.We find a relatively weak Pearson correlation and Granger causality between the corresponding time series over the entire period.展开更多
Although the 2022 cryptocurrency market crash prompted despair among investors,the rallying cry,“wagmi”(We’re all gonna make it.)emerged among cryptocurrency enthusiasts in the aftermath.Did cryptocurrency enthusia...Although the 2022 cryptocurrency market crash prompted despair among investors,the rallying cry,“wagmi”(We’re all gonna make it.)emerged among cryptocurrency enthusiasts in the aftermath.Did cryptocurrency enthusiasts respond to this crash differently compared to traditional investors?Using natural language processing techniques applied to Twitter data,this study employed a difference-in-differences method to determine whether the cryptocurrency market crash had a differential effect on investor sentiment toward cryptocurrency enthusiasts relative to more traditional investors.The results indicate that the crash affected investor sentiment among cryptocurrency enthusiastic investors differently from traditional investors.In particular,cryptocurrency enthusiasts’tweets became more neutral and,surprisingly,less negative.This result appears to be primarily driven by a deliberate,collectivist effort to promote positivity within the cryptocurrency community(“wagmi”).Considering the more nuanced emotional content of tweets,it appears that cryptocurrency enthusiasts expressed less joy and surprise in the aftermath of the cryptocurrency crash than traditional investors.Moreover,cryptocurrency enthusiasts tweeted more frequently after the cryptocurrency crash,with a relative increase in tweet frequency of approximately one tweet per day.An analysis of the specific textual content of tweets provides evidence of herding behavior among cryptocurrency enthusiasts.展开更多
This study employs a fixed-effects model to investigate the holiday effect in the cryptocurrency market,using trading data for the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Coinmarketcap.com from January 1,...This study employs a fixed-effects model to investigate the holiday effect in the cryptocurrency market,using trading data for the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Coinmarketcap.com from January 1,2017 to July 1,2022.The results indicate that returns on cryptocurrencies increase significantly during Chinese holiday periods.Additionally,we use textual analysis to construct an investor sentiment indicator and find that positive investor sentiment boosts cryptocurrency market returns.However,when positive investor sentiment prevails in the cryptocurrency market,the holiday effect weakens,implying that positive investor sentiment attenuates the holiday effect.Robustness tests based on the Bitcoin market generate consistent results.Moreover,this study explores the mechanisms underlying the cryptocurrency holiday effect and examines the impact of epidemic transmission risk and heterogeneity characteristics on this phenomenon.These findings offer novel insights into the impact of Chinese statutory holidays on the cryptocurrency market and illuminate the role of investor sentiment in this market.展开更多
This paper specifically investigates the effects of US government emergency actions on the investor sentiment–financial institution stock returns relationship.Despite attempts by many studies,the literature still pro...This paper specifically investigates the effects of US government emergency actions on the investor sentiment–financial institution stock returns relationship.Despite attempts by many studies,the literature still provides no answers concerning this nexus.Using a new firm-specific Twitter investor sentiment(TS)metric and performing a panel smooth transition regression for daily data on 66 S&P 500 financial institutions from January 1 to December 31,2020,we find that TS acts asymmetrically,nonlinearly,and time varyingly according to the pandemic situation and US states’responses to COVID-19.In other words,we uncover the nexus between TS and financial institution stock returns and determine that it changes with US states’reactions to COVID-19.With a permissive government response(the first regime),TS does not impact financial institution stock returns;however,when moving to a strict government response(the overall government response index exceeds the 63.59 threshold),this positive effect becomes significant in the second regime.Moreover,the results show that the slope of the transition function is high,indicating an abrupt rather than a smooth transition between the first and second regimes.The results are robust and have important policy implications for policymakers,investment analysts,and portfolio managers.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.
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.
文摘The stock market is full of events that affect the sensitivity reaction of investors at a large scale. Individual investor sentiment is just like his/her personal feeling depending upon their nature, risk appetite, and market scenario. This research study investigates the investors’ reaction in the stock market for the real estate segment during the massive market crisis in developing countries. Demonetisation of 2016 in India has been taken with the purpose of implementing a pilot study to analyse the overreaction and availability bias. The primary focus was on analysing how the investors react on the information of demonetisation and their pattern of investment in the stock market with a special emphasis on real estate sector where the effect of the event had dramatically changed the stock prices. Therefore, a pre- and post- analysis had been conducted to gauge the prices, sensitivity, and reaction of investors in the stock market. The reaction of the citizens after these events was found to be drastically affected. Five real estate companies had been focused upon in this study to examine the impact of investors’ overreaction owing to the demonetisation and their investment pattern for stocks during pre- and post- demonetisation period at that timeframe. The analysis was done on a shorter period of time so that the impact of overreaction and availability bias can be critically analysed. The paper thus exhibits how investor sentiments and reaction for stock preference had changed over time through statistical study.
文摘Finance 3.0 is still in its infancy.Yet big data represents an unprecedented opportunity for finance.The massive increase in the volume of data generated by individuals every day on the Internet offers researchers the opportunity to approach the question of financial market predictability from a new perspective.In this article,we study the relationship between a well-known Twitter micro-blogging platform and the Tunisian financial market.In particular,we consider,over a 12-month period,Twitter volume and sentiment across the 22 stock companies that make up the Tunindex index.We find a relatively weak Pearson correlation and Granger causality between the corresponding time series over the entire period.
文摘Although the 2022 cryptocurrency market crash prompted despair among investors,the rallying cry,“wagmi”(We’re all gonna make it.)emerged among cryptocurrency enthusiasts in the aftermath.Did cryptocurrency enthusiasts respond to this crash differently compared to traditional investors?Using natural language processing techniques applied to Twitter data,this study employed a difference-in-differences method to determine whether the cryptocurrency market crash had a differential effect on investor sentiment toward cryptocurrency enthusiasts relative to more traditional investors.The results indicate that the crash affected investor sentiment among cryptocurrency enthusiastic investors differently from traditional investors.In particular,cryptocurrency enthusiasts’tweets became more neutral and,surprisingly,less negative.This result appears to be primarily driven by a deliberate,collectivist effort to promote positivity within the cryptocurrency community(“wagmi”).Considering the more nuanced emotional content of tweets,it appears that cryptocurrency enthusiasts expressed less joy and surprise in the aftermath of the cryptocurrency crash than traditional investors.Moreover,cryptocurrency enthusiasts tweeted more frequently after the cryptocurrency crash,with a relative increase in tweet frequency of approximately one tweet per day.An analysis of the specific textual content of tweets provides evidence of herding behavior among cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
基金One of the authors(Jian Huang)received research support from Towson University,for this research.
文摘This study employs a fixed-effects model to investigate the holiday effect in the cryptocurrency market,using trading data for the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Coinmarketcap.com from January 1,2017 to July 1,2022.The results indicate that returns on cryptocurrencies increase significantly during Chinese holiday periods.Additionally,we use textual analysis to construct an investor sentiment indicator and find that positive investor sentiment boosts cryptocurrency market returns.However,when positive investor sentiment prevails in the cryptocurrency market,the holiday effect weakens,implying that positive investor sentiment attenuates the holiday effect.Robustness tests based on the Bitcoin market generate consistent results.Moreover,this study explores the mechanisms underlying the cryptocurrency holiday effect and examines the impact of epidemic transmission risk and heterogeneity characteristics on this phenomenon.These findings offer novel insights into the impact of Chinese statutory holidays on the cryptocurrency market and illuminate the role of investor sentiment in this market.
文摘This paper specifically investigates the effects of US government emergency actions on the investor sentiment–financial institution stock returns relationship.Despite attempts by many studies,the literature still provides no answers concerning this nexus.Using a new firm-specific Twitter investor sentiment(TS)metric and performing a panel smooth transition regression for daily data on 66 S&P 500 financial institutions from January 1 to December 31,2020,we find that TS acts asymmetrically,nonlinearly,and time varyingly according to the pandemic situation and US states’responses to COVID-19.In other words,we uncover the nexus between TS and financial institution stock returns and determine that it changes with US states’reactions to COVID-19.With a permissive government response(the first regime),TS does not impact financial institution stock returns;however,when moving to a strict government response(the overall government response index exceeds the 63.59 threshold),this positive effect becomes significant in the second regime.Moreover,the results show that the slope of the transition function is high,indicating an abrupt rather than a smooth transition between the first and second regimes.The results are robust and have important policy implications for policymakers,investment analysts,and portfolio managers.