Market response to investor sentiment : [This version June 15, 2009]
- Recent empirical research suggests that measures of investor sentiment have predictive power for future stock returns at intermediate and long horizons. Given that sentiment indicators are widely published, smart investors should exploit the information conveyed by the indicator and thus trigger an immediate market response to the publication of the sentiment indicator. The present paper is the first to empirically analyze whether this immediate response can be identified in the data. We use survey-based sentiment indicators from two countries (Germany and the US). Consistent with previous research we find predictability at intermediate horizons. However, the predictability in the US largely disappears after 1994. Using event study methodology we find that the publication of sentiment indicators affects market returns. The sign of this immediate response is the same as the sign of the intermediate horizon predictability. This is consistent with sentiment being related to mispricing but is inconsistent with the sentiment indicator providing information about future expected returns. JEL-Classification: G12, G14
Author: | Jördis HengelbrockGND, Erik TheissenORCiDGND, Christian Westheide |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-356630 |
URL: | http://www.northernfinance.org/2009/program/papers/263.pdf |
Document Type: | Report |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2009 |
Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2014/11/26 |
Tag: | Event Study; Investor Sentiment; Return Predictability |
Issue: | June 15, 2009 |
Page Number: | 23 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 352816430 |
Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |