We investigate the impact of investor attention, proxied by Google search volume, on target abnormal returns and liquidity measures around M&A announcements. Investor attention slightly increases before and exhibits a sharp incline at the announcement date, with elevated levels of attention...

We study a number of large international military conflicts since World War II where we establish a news analysis as a proxy for the estimated likelihood that the conflict will result in a war. We find that in cases when there is a pre-war phase, an increase in the war likelihood tends to...

This study investigates the impact of political news on stock price movements. Analyzing more than 3,200 tweets from US President Donald Trump's Twitter account, we find that tweets related to the US-China trade war negatively predict S&P 500 returns and positively predict VIX. Granger causality...