Using trading information of a comprehensive sample of relisted Chapter 11 firms in the past few decades, we find that the one-year market-adjusted buy-and-hold returns of post-reorg equity are over 50%. An equal-weighted calendar-time portfolio generates 7.2% annualized excess returns over a...

We construct investor sentiment of UK stock market using the procedure of principal component analysis. Using sentiment-augmented EGARCH component model, we analyse the impacts of sentiment on market excess return, the permanent component of market volatility and the transitory component of...