News or noise? Using twitter to identify and understand company-specific news flow

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 791-830

  Sprenger, Timm O ^a   Sandner, Philipp G ^a   Tumasjan, Andranik ^a   Welpe, Isabell M ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Event study; Information leakage; Market reaction; News events

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907887240     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12086     Document Type: Article

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