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Antoniou, Constantinos, Doukas, John A. and Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar (2015) Investor sentiment, beta and the cost of equity capital. Management Science, 62 (2). pp. 347-367. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2014.2101 ISSN 0025-1909.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2101
Abstract
The security market line accords with the capital asset pricing model by taking on an upward slope in pessimistic sentiment periods, but is downward sloping during optimistic periods. We hypothesize that this finding obtains because periods of optimism attract equity investment by unsophisticated, overconfident, traders in risky opportunities (high beta stocks), whereas such traders stay along the sidelines during pessimistic periods. Thus, high beta stocks become overpriced in optimistic periods, but during pessimistic periods, noise trading is reduced, so that traditional beta pricing prevails. Unconditional on sentiment, these effects offset each other. Although rational explanations cannot completely be ruled out, analyses using earnings expectations, fund flows, the probability of informed trading, and order imbalances do provide evidence that noise traders are more bullish about high beta stocks when sentiment is optimistic, whereas investor behavior appears to accord more closely with rationality during pessimistic periods, supporting our hypothesis.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Finance Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Securities, Capital assets pricing model , Finance, Investments, Management | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Management Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (I N F O R M S) | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0025-1909 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 27 April 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 62 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 347-367 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2101 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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