A New Investor Sentiment Indicator Based on Return Decomposition

Yuan LIU, Yan SHANG, Jianming SHI, Shouyang WANG

Journal of Systems Science and Information ›› 2016, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (2) : 121-130.

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Journal of Systems Science and Information ›› 2016, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (2) : 121-130. DOI: 10.21078/JSSI-2016-121-10
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A New Investor Sentiment Indicator Based on Return Decomposition

  • Yuan LIU1, Yan SHANG2,3, Jianming SHI4, Shouyang WANG1,2
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This paper extends the DSSW model to accommodate rational arbitrageurs, optimistic investors and pessimistic investors. We model the price impact by using daily data and create a new methodology to calculate the optimistic and the pessimistic. The new sentiment indicator has high correlation with the other traditional ones, and as a proxy variable of individual share or financial market on daily, it could distinguish the optimistic and the pessimistic. In the empirical research, we develop a time-series model and a cross-section model respectively to explore the explanatory power of highly frequent investor sentiment to idiosyncratic volatility and capital asset mispricing. The results show that the new sentiment indicator can explain 21.31% of idiosyncratic volatility to individual share on average, and it has a great explanation of 36% to capital asset mispricing.

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DSSW model / investor sentiment / idiosyncratic volatility / asset mispricing

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Yuan LIU, Yan SHANG, Jianming SHI, Shouyang WANG. A New Investor Sentiment Indicator Based on Return Decomposition. Journal of Systems Science and Information, 2016, 4(2): 121-130 https://doi.org/10.21078/JSSI-2016-121-10

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