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Title: Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices

Author(s): Samuel Fraiberger, Do Lee, Damien Puy and Romain Ranci�re

Publication Date: December 2018

Keyword(s): Asset Pricing, behavioral finance, Capital Flows, Investor Sentiment, Natural Language Processing and news media

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics and International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between media sentiment and international equity prices using a new dataset of 4 million news articles published between 1991 and 2015. Three key results emerge. First, news sentiment robustly predicts (future) daily returns around the world. How- ever, we find a sharp contrast between the effect of local news and that of global news: whereas local news optimism (pessimism) predicts a small and transitory increase (decrease) in local equity returns, global news sentiment has a larger impact on returns that does not reverse in the short run. Second, news sentiment affects local prices mainly through the investment decisions of foreign �?? rather than local �?? investors. Third, large variations in global news sentiment predominantly happen in the absence of new information about fundamentals, suggesting that movements in global sentiment capture variations in investors sentiment. Taken together, our findings illustrate the key role played by foreign news and investors sentiment in driving local asset prices.

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Fraiberger, S, Lee, D, Puy, D and Ranci�re, R. 2018. 'Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices '. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13366