Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103755 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper Series No. 492
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of news media sentiment on financial market returns and volatility in the long-term. We hypothesize that the way the media formulate and present news to the public produces different perceptions and, thus, incurs different investor behavior. To analyze such framing effects we distinguish between optimistic and pessimistic news frames. We construct a monthly media sentiment indicator by taking the ratio of the number of newspaper articles that contain predetermined negative words to the number of newspaper articles that contain predetermined positive words in the headline and/or the lead paragraph. Our results indicate that pessimistic news media sentiment is positively related to global market volatility and negatively related to global market returns 12 to 24 months in advance. We show that our media sentiment indicator reflects very well the financial market crises and pricing bubbles over the past 20 years.
Subjects: 
Investor behavior
News media sentiment
Financial market crises
Pricing bubbles
Framing effects
MMFs
SEC
securities
net asset value
financial crisis
shadow banking
systemic risk
financial crisis
JEL: 
G01
G10
E32
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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