We investigate whether the media plays a role in corporate governance by disseminating news. Using a comprehensive dataset of corporate and insider news coverage for the 2001-2012 period, we show that the media reduces insiders' future trading profits by disseminating news on prior insiders'...

We investigate the effect of information uncertainty on the macroeconomicannouncement premium of the market return in addition to theeffect of fundamentals uncertainty. We show that the premium issignificant only during low information uncertainty periods, opposite to thecase of fundamentals...

We examine the market reaction to recommendations in the Financial Post's “Hot Stock” column. For buy recommendations, we find a significant average excess return of 1.23% on the publication day; the average excess return is greater (1.84%) for small firms. We also document a significant...

Relying on a comprehensive data set of news releases, we construct monthly firm-level news sentiment scores during the 2000–2016 period and document a news momentum phenomenon of stocks with more positive news in the past generating more positive news in the future. We propose three hypotheses...

Motivated by the pioneering study of Morck, Yeung, and Yu (2000), this paper investigates whether and how news commonality varies according to a country's institutional environments. Using a unique global news data set across 41 countries for the 2000-2009 period, we document three notable...