Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market / Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Malcolm.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wurgler, Jeffrey.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13189.

NBER working paper series no. w13189

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

Real investors and markets are too complicated to be neatly summarized by a few selected biases and trading frictions. The "top down" approach to behavioral finance focuses on the measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns. It builds on the two broader and more irrefutable assumptions of behavioral finance -- sentiment and the limits to arbitrage -- to explain which stocks are likely to be most affected by sentiment. In particular, stocks of low capitalization, younger, unprofitable, high volatility, non-dividend paying, growth companies, or stocks of firms in financial distress, are likely to be disproportionately sensitive to broad waves of investor sentiment. We review the theoretical and empirical evidence for these predictions.

Notes:

Print version record

June 2007.