Linguistic specificity effectively reduces barriers to information cognition, increasing the efficiency of information acquisition, integration and processing. Combining the psycholinguistics theory of the concreteness effect with asset-pricing theory, we determine that linguistic specificity in...

Using stock market data over 16 years for Chinese stock markets and over 3 years for U.S. stock markets, this study explores the explanatory power of early intraday market-wide up and down movements to the subsequent intraday returns within the same trading day. As compared to the closing of the...