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We study the relation between mutual fund trades and mass media coverage of stocks. We find that funds exhibit persistent differences in their propensity to buy media-covered stocks. Moreover, this propensity is negatively related to their future performance. Funds in the highest propensity...
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By reaching a broad population of investors, mass media can alleviate informational frictions and affect security pricing even if it does not supply genuine news. We investigate this hypothesis by studying the cross-sectional relation between media coverage and expected stock returns. We find...
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The relationship between investment bank reputation and the price and quality of bond underwriting services is studied. After controlling for the endogeneity in issuer-underwriter matching, I find that reputable banks obtain lower yields, charge higher fees, while leaving issuers' net proceeds...
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Using hand-collected TV programming data and intra-day trading data from China, we compare the trading, liquidity, and returns of on-show and off-show stocks in the same sector. Our difference-in-difference analysis reveals that post-show, off-show stocks experience significant improvements in...
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Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and information asymmetries, they can also introduce political distortions. We empirically explore these issues for China, where a quarter of firms' R&D expenditures come from...
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We study the risk-taking behavior of stock analysts under varying market conditions. We examine how the risk analysts take by providing bold forecasts that deviate from consensus depends on the degree of uncertainty in the environment as well as the analysts' skill level. We provide evidence...
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