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The impact of investor sentiment on the German stock market

This paper develops a broad-based sentiment indicator for Germany and investigates whether investor sentiment can explain stock returns on the German stock market. Based on a principal component analysis, we construct a sentiment indicator that condenses information of several well-known sentiment proxies. We show that this indicator explains the return spread between sentiment sensitive stocks and stocks that are not sensitive to sentiment fluctuations. Specifically, stocks that are difficult to arbitrage and hard to value are sensitive to the indicator. However, we do not find much predictive power of sentiment for future stock returns.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CFR Working Paper ; No. 10-03 [rev.]

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
Thema
investor sentiment
stock returns
German stock market

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Finter, Philipp
Niessen-Ruenzi, Alexandra
Ruenzi, Stefan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
(wo)
Cologne
(wann)
2011

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Finter, Philipp
  • Niessen-Ruenzi, Alexandra
  • Ruenzi, Stefan
  • University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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