Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

Q Zha, G Kou, H Zhang, H Liang, X Chen, CC Li… - Financial Innovation, 2020 - Springer
Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final
opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation …

Textual sentiment in finance: A survey of methods and models

C Kearney, S Liu - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2014 - Elsevier
We survey the textual sentiment literature, comparing and contrasting the various
information sources, content analysis methods, and empirical models that have been used …

COVID-19: Media coverage and financial markets behavior—A sectoral inquiry

O Haroon, SAR Rizvi - Journal of behavioral and experimental finance, 2020 - Elsevier
We analyze the relationship between sentiment generated by coronavirus-related news and
volatility of equity markets. The ongoing coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) resulted in …

Have financial statements lost their relevance?

J Francis, K Schipper - Journal of accounting Research, 1999 - JSTOR
This paper addresses the concern that financial statements have lost a significant portion of
their relevance to investors. 1 This concern and its implications for financial accountants …

Does chatter really matter? Dynamics of user-generated content and stock performance

S Tirunillai, GJ Tellis - Marketing science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
This study examines whether user-generated content (UGC) is related to stock market
performance, which metric of UGC has the strongest relationship, and what the dynamics of …

Stock price reaction to news and no-news: drift and reversal after headlines

WS Chan - Journal of financial economics, 2003 - Elsevier
Using a comprehensive database of headlines about individual companies, I examine
monthly returns following public news. I compare them to stocks with similar returns, but no …

The reputational penalty firms bear from committing criminal fraud

JM Karpoff, JR Lott Jr - The Journal of Law and Economics, 1993 - journals.uchicago.edu
OPTIMAL penalties for corporate fraud require that firms face expected penalties equal to
the total social costs of the crime. Yet formal courtimposed sanctions for committing fraud …

Deutsche mark–dollar volatility: intraday activity patterns, macroeconomic announcements, and longer run dependencies

TG Andersen, T Bollerslev - the Journal of Finance, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a detailed characterization of the volatility in the deutsche mark–dollar
foreign exchange market using an annual sample of five‐minute returns. The approach …

Information demand and stock market volatility

N Vlastakis, RN Markellos - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2012 - Elsevier
We study information demand and supply at the firm and market level using data for 30 of
the largest stocks traded on NYSE and NASDAQ. Demand is approximated in a novel …

An empirical test of signalling theory

B Yasar, T Martin, T Kiessling - Management Research Review, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to support and extend signalling theory because of information
asymmetry. This study also aims to answer the call to further negative signalling and explore …