Information salience, investor sentiment, and stock returns: The case of British soccer betting

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 368-387

  Palomino, Frederic ^a   Renneboog, Luc ^b   Zhang, Chendi ^c  

^a EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Football; Investor mood; Market efficiency; Media attention; Sports betting

Indexed keywords

EID: 64449085029     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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