In the first chapter titled "The Asymmetric Effect of Sentiment on U.S. Equity Returns", we test the asymmetric impact of investor sentiment, proxied by the Bak
We use the returns on lottery-like stocks to construct a novel index for investor sentiment in the stock market. This new measure is closely related to previous
How the correlation between equity returns behaves during market turmoils has been an issue of discussion in the international finance literature. Some research
We investigate the effects of investor sentiment on returns and volatility of eight different commodities. Our findings suggest that sentiment has a predictive
Using a unique data set consisting of more than 36.5 million submitted retail investor orders over the course of five years, Matthias Burghardt constructs an in