News dissemination and investor attention
Boulland, Romain; Degeorge, François; Ginglinger, Edith (2017), News dissemination and investor attention, Review of Finance, 21, 2, p. 761-791. 10.1093/rof/rfw018
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2017Journal name
Review of FinanceVolume
21Number
2Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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761-791
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We examine how investor attention changes when a firm adopts a modern news dissemination technology. We find that after continental European firms begin using an English-language electronic wire service to disseminate company news, they exhibit a stronger initial reaction to earnings surprises, a lower post earnings announcement stock price drift, and an increase in abnormal trading volume near earnings announcements, compared with when they disseminated their news in non-electronic format and in a continental European language. Our results hold for a sub-sample of firms for which the decision to use a wire service was likely exogenous. The effect of wire services on investor attention is due to the format of news (electronic and English-language), not to the increased speed of news transmission.Subjects / Keywords
News dissemination; Language; Media coverage; Earnings announcements; Limited attention; D83; G12; G14Related items
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