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Collaborative Speculation And Overvaluation: Evidence From Social Media, Adam Barrett Booker
Collaborative Speculation And Overvaluation: Evidence From Social Media, Adam Barrett Booker
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
I use data from StockTwits and Twitter to provide evidence that investor attention on social media in the period before earnings is related to short-term overvaluation, consistent with bullish investors herding around common information. In the 2 to 60 days after earnings, returns for companies in the highest quintile of pre-earnings announcement investor attention are 4.2 percent lower than those of companies in the lowest quintile. I find evidence that the negative post-earnings drift result found in this study is related to investors waiting until after earnings are announced to enact costly arbitrage strategies. I further examine intra- and inter-network …
Boys That Blend: How Men In Makeup Can Affect Social Media Marketing Efforts, Matthew Meyers
Boys That Blend: How Men In Makeup Can Affect Social Media Marketing Efforts, Matthew Meyers
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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