Authors: | Engelhardt, Nils Krause, Miguel Neukirchen, Daniel Posch, Peter |
Title: | What drives stocks during the Corona-crash? News attention vs. rational expectation |
Language (ISO): | en |
Abstract: | We explore if the corona-crash 2020 was driven by news attention or rational expectations about the pandemic’s economic impact. Using a sample of 64 national stock markets covering 94% of the world’s GDP, we find the stock markets’ decline to be mainly associated with higher news attention and less with rational expectation. We estimate the economic cost from the news hype to amount to USD 3.5 trillion for the US and USD 200 billion on average for the rest of the G8 countries. |
Subject Headings: | Corona-crash News attention Investor expectation |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/39192 http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21110 |
Issue Date: | 2020-06-19 |
Rights link: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Appears in Collections: | Professur Finance |
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