{"title":"Vocabulary Herfindahl Index (VocaHIn): Linguistic dominance and collective effervescence in WallStreetBets","authors":"Ko Hayakawa , Yoichi Otsubo , Ser-huang Poon , Siliang Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our analysis of over 150,000 WallStreetBets comments reveals dominant phrases when members of the community experience collective excitement and solidarity (<em>Collective Effervescence</em>). Using the novel <em>Vocabulary Herfindahl Index</em> (<em>VocaHIn</em>), we find that stock returns volatility increases after <em>CE</em>, and vice versa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 112027"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176524005111","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Our analysis of over 150,000 WallStreetBets comments reveals dominant phrases when members of the community experience collective excitement and solidarity (Collective Effervescence). Using the novel Vocabulary Herfindahl Index (VocaHIn), we find that stock returns volatility increases after CE, and vice versa.
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