Arbeitspapier

Market response to investor sentiment

This paper reconsiders the effect of investor sentiment on stock prices. Using survey-based sentiment indicators from Germany and the US we confirm previous findings of predictability at intermediate time horizons. The main contribution of our paper is that we also analyze the immediate price reaction to the publication of sentiment indicators. We find that the sign of the immediate price reaction is the same as that of the predictability at intermediate time horizons. This is consistent with sentiment being related to mispricing but is inconsistent with the alternative explanation that sentiment indicators provide information about future expected returns.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CFS Working Paper ; No. 2011/02

Classification
Wirtschaft
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
Subject
Investor Sentiment
Event Study
Return Predictability
Börsenkurs
Kapitalertrag
Prognoseverfahren
Anlageverhalten
Meinung
Deutschland
USA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hengelbrock, Jördis
Theissen, Erik
Westheide, Christian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-91456
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hengelbrock, Jördis
  • Theissen, Erik
  • Westheide, Christian
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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