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Tossed by the tides of emotion: The impact of online media sentiment on stock returns
This study examines the impact of online media sentiment on stock returns using a dataset of over 8.3 million online financial media reports covering Chinese A-share listed companies. The findings reveal that more positive media sentiment towards a company is associated with higher average monthly stock returns. A zero-investment arbitrage strategy, constructed by buying stocks with high media sentiment and selling those with low media sentiment, yields a significant monthly premium of 4%. These effects are particularly pronounced for stocks with higher investor attention and lower liquidity. Moreover, even after controlling for known risk factors or during IPO quiet periods when no new information is introduced, companies with positive media sentiment continue to exhibit higher stock returns. Further analysis shows that media sentiment can explain approximately 4% to 12% of various market anomalies, and the media sentiment premium exhibits return reversals. This research uncovers the unique mechanisms of media effects in emerging markets and provides robust support for the limited attention theory from behavioral finance.
期刊介绍:
Behavioral and Experimental Finance represent lenses and approaches through which we can view financial decision-making. The aim of the journal is to publish high quality research in all fields of finance, where such research is carried out with a behavioral perspective and / or is carried out via experimental methods. It is open to but not limited to papers which cover investigations of biases, the role of various neurological markers in financial decision making, national and organizational culture as it impacts financial decision making, sentiment and asset pricing, the design and implementation of experiments to investigate financial decision making and trading, methodological experiments, and natural experiments.
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance welcomes full-length and short letter papers in the area of behavioral finance and experimental finance. The focus is on rapid dissemination of high-impact research in these areas.