Dangerous infectious diseases: Bad news for Main Street, good news for Wall Street?
Dangerous infectious diseases: Bad news for Main Street, good news for Wall Street?
We examine whether investor mood, driven by World Health Organization (WHO) alerts and media news on dangerous infectious diseases, is priced in pharmaceutical companies' stocks in the United States. We argue that disease-related news (DRNs) should not trigger rational trading. We find that DRNs have a positive and significant sentiment effect among investors (on Wall Street). The effect is stronger (weaker) for small (large) companies, who are less (more) likely to engage in the development of new vaccines. A potential negative investor climate (on Main Street) – induced by disease-related fear – does not alter the positive sentiment effect.
WHO alerts, investor sentiment, pharmaceutical industry, trading strategies
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Donadelli, Michael
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Kizys, Renatas
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Riedel, Max
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September 2017
Donadelli, Michael
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Kizys, Renatas
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Riedel, Max
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Donadelli, Michael, Kizys, Renatas and Riedel, Max
(2017)
Dangerous infectious diseases: Bad news for Main Street, good news for Wall Street?
Journal of Financial Markets, 35, .
(doi:10.1016/j.finmar.2016.12.003).
Abstract
We examine whether investor mood, driven by World Health Organization (WHO) alerts and media news on dangerous infectious diseases, is priced in pharmaceutical companies' stocks in the United States. We argue that disease-related news (DRNs) should not trigger rational trading. We find that DRNs have a positive and significant sentiment effect among investors (on Wall Street). The effect is stronger (weaker) for small (large) companies, who are less (more) likely to engage in the development of new vaccines. A potential negative investor climate (on Main Street) – induced by disease-related fear – does not alter the positive sentiment effect.
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 December 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 December 2016
Published date: September 2017
Keywords:
WHO alerts, investor sentiment, pharmaceutical industry, trading strategies
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Local EPrints ID: 434042
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434042
ISSN: 1386-4181
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