Joint news, attention spillover, and market returns predictability

We analyze over 2.6 million news articles and propose a novel measure of joint news coverage of firms. The measure strongly and negatively predicts market returns, with a monthly R-squared of 3.93% in sample and 6.52% out of sample. The relation is causal, robust to existing predictors, and is espec...

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Main Authors: GUO, Li, PENG, Lin, TAO, Yubo, Jun TU
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6888
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7887/viewcontent/SSRN_id2927561.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English