This study investigates the relationship between investor inattention and earnings announcement effects around a Chinese holiday called Tomb-Sweeping Day, which, unlike other holidays, is short. Not only is investor attention distracted, which can generate emotional fluctuation, but a large...

Retail investors pay over twice as much attention to local companies than non-local ones, based on Google searches. News volume and volatility amplify this attention gap. Attention appears causally related to perceived proximity: first, acquisition by a nonlocal company is associated with less...

Recent studies suggest that investor emotions might cause securities to be mispriced. We build an investment strategy around the mispricing opportunities identified in two papers that have examined how emotions influence investor reaction to earnings announcements. This strategy proves to be...

Most previous studies demonstrating the influential role of the textual information released by the media on stock market performance have concentrated on earnings-related disclosures. By contrast, this paper focuses on disposal announcements, so that the impacts of listed companies'...

Warren Buffett suggested that the ratio of the market value of all publicly traded stocks to the Gross National Product could identify potential overvaluations and undervaluations in the US equity market. We investigate whether this ratio is a statistically significant predictor of equity market...

Passive investing, particularly in emerging markets, has become an increasingly popular means of quick, “diversified” exposure to a particular segment of the markets. Defensive investors, as Benjamin Graham noted, would be best served owning a diversified list of leading companies. Yet it's...

This article offers a new explanation of the Warren Buffett's investment phenomenon. This explanation is different from that offered by the promoters of the value investing who suggest the idea of the existence of a superior in-vestment strategy and from that put forward by the advocates of the...

Passive investing, particularly in emerging markets, has become an increasingly popular means of quick, “diversified” exposure to a particular segment of the markets. Flows into passive emerging market products have been so strong that assets in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) designed to...