Financial news and market panics in the age of high-frequency sentiment trading algorithms

Journalism

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-291

  Kleinnijenhuis, Jan ^a   Schultz, Friederike ^a   Oegema, Dirk ^a   Van Atteveldt, Wouter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral finance; communication theories; content analysis; efficient market hypothesis; financial journalism; financial markets; news effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875883027     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884912468375     Document Type: Article

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