How do social media shape the information environment in the financial market?

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Xu, Sean Xin ^a   Zhang, Xiaoquan Michael ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Analyst bias; Analyst dispersion; Financial market; Information environment; Social media; Traditional media; Voluntary disclosure; Web 2.0; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ANALYST BIAS; ANALYST DISPERSIONS; FINANCIAL MARKET; INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRADITIONAL MEDIA; VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE; WEB 2.0; WIKIPEDIA;

COMMERCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FINANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870973840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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