Invester Behavior
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ANG, James S.
TANG, Di
WU, Chaopeng
Could Social Media Empower Small Investors in Corporate Governance?
Social media posts about potential mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can significantly predict the likelihood of M&A success, say HKUST researcher Charles Hsu and colleagues. Social media message boards give China’s 50 million small investors a voice, which they are using to express their opinions on acquisition activity. This study establishes an influential ... Read More
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The paper looks at how superstitions affect financial markets by examining limit orders (an offer to trade shares at a given price) in the Taiwanese stock market. The authors measured the strength of traders’ superstitions by the regularity with which they chose prices ending in eight, and how strenuously they avoided the number four. Institutional investors ... Read More
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LEHAVY, Reuven
When a firm discloses important corporate information, analysts are usually right on their tail with reports about what was said. A new study has confirmed that these reports serve a valuable function for investors because they interpret, flesh out and confirm managers’ statements. The study, by Allen Huang, Reuven Lehavy, Amy Zang and Rong Zheng, used an ... Read More
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