Investor sentiment and sectoral stock returns
Investor sentiment and sectoral stock returns
It is well known that investor sentiment affects aggregate stock returns. We investigate the economic link between sport sentiment and US sectoral stock returns. We find that sport sentiment affects only the financial sector. We argue that this result might be explained by the high liquidity that makes the financial sector more attractive to foreign investors who in turn are more prone to sport sentiment than local investors in the US. Accordingly, an arbitrageur can build a profitable trading strategy by selling short the financial sector during the FIFA World cup periods and buying it back afterwards.
market efficiency, Investor sentiment, soccer results, asset prices
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Curatola, Giuliano
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Donadelli, Michael
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Kizys, Renatas
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Riedel, Max
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May 2016
Curatola, Giuliano
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Donadelli, Michael
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Kizys, Renatas
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Riedel, Max
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Curatola, Giuliano, Donadelli, Michael, Kizys, Renatas and Riedel, Max
(2016)
Investor sentiment and sectoral stock returns.
Finance Research Letters, 17, .
(doi:10.1016/j.frl.2016.03.023).
Abstract
It is well known that investor sentiment affects aggregate stock returns. We investigate the economic link between sport sentiment and US sectoral stock returns. We find that sport sentiment affects only the financial sector. We argue that this result might be explained by the high liquidity that makes the financial sector more attractive to foreign investors who in turn are more prone to sport sentiment than local investors in the US. Accordingly, an arbitrageur can build a profitable trading strategy by selling short the financial sector during the FIFA World cup periods and buying it back afterwards.
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 March 2016
Published date: May 2016
Keywords:
market efficiency, Investor sentiment, soccer results, asset prices
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Local EPrints ID: 434500
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434500
ISSN: 1544-6123
PURE UUID: d81b488b-ea27-46b9-a01b-c829654a7246
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Michael Donadelli
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