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The impact of investors’ attention on stock price
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Abstract
From the perspective of investor attention to market stocks, this paper analyzes investors' visitor volume of certain stocks and sentiments of stock indexes. I compare the search vol-ume and stock prices of Apple and Tesla to specifically observe the relationship between stock prices and investor attention in individual companies. Then I examine the search vol-ume and index of SP500 and SSEC to explain the significant disparity in the impacts of in-vestor attention in different regions. It shows that increased attention is positively related to stock price volatility, i.e., positive emotional signals (negative emotional signals) will lead to higher (lower) stock prices.
Keywords
Investors’ Attention, Visitor Volume, Sentiment
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Financial Technology and Business Analysis (ICFTBA 2022), Part 2
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-23-2
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-24-9
- Published Date
- 27 April 2023
- Series
- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
- ISSN (Print)
- 2754-1169
- ISSN (Online)
- 2754-1177
- DOI
- 10.54254/2754-1169/6/20220164
- Copyright
- 27 April 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited