Arbeitspapier
News media sentiment and investor behavior
This paper investigates the impact of news media sentiment on financial market returns and volatility in the long-term. We hypothesize that the way the media formulate and present news to the public produces different perceptions and, thus, incurs different investor behavior. To analyze such framing effects we distinguish between optimistic and pessimistic news frames. We construct a monthly media sentiment indicator by taking the ratio of the number of newspaper articles that contain predetermined negative words to the number of newspaper articles that contain predetermined positive words in the headline and/or the lead paragraph. Our results indicate that pessimistic news media sentiment is positively related to global market volatility and negatively related to global market returns 12 to 24 months in advance. We show that our media sentiment indicator reflects very well the financial market crises and pricing bubbles over the past 20 years.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CFS Working Paper Series ; No. 492
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Financial Crises
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- Subject
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Investor behavior
News media sentiment
Financial market crises
Pricing bubbles
Framing effects
MMFs
SEC
securities
net asset value
financial crisis
shadow banking
systemic risk
financial crisis
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kräussl, Roman
Mirgorodskaya, Elizaveta
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
- (where)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-355800
- Last update
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20.09.2024, 8:22 AM CEST
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kräussl, Roman
- Mirgorodskaya, Elizaveta
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Time of origin
- 2014
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