Information, Trading, and Volatility: Evidence from Firm-Specific News

54 Pages Posted: 25 Dec 2012 Last revised: 1 Dec 2017

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Jacob Boudoukh

Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah

Ronen Feldman

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration

Shimon Kogan

Reichman University - Arison School of Business; University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Matthew P. Richardson

Department of Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

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Date Written: February 22, 2016

Abstract

What moves stock prices? Prior literature concludes that the revelation of private information through trading, and not public news, is the primary driver. We revisit the question by using textual analysis to identify fundamental information in news. This information accounts for 49.6% of overnight idiosyncratic volatility (compared to 12.4% during trading hours), with a considerable fraction due to days with multiple news types. As applications, we use our measure of public information arrival to reinvestigate two seminal works in the literature related to individual R2s of stock returns on aggregate factors, namely Roll (1988) and Morck, Yeung and Yu (2000).

Keywords: text analysis, excess volatility, roll R2, information and asset prices.

JEL Classification: G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Boudoukh, Jacob and Feldman, Ronen and Kogan, Shimon and Richardson, Matthew P., Information, Trading, and Volatility: Evidence from Firm-Specific News (February 22, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2193667 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2193667

Jacob Boudoukh

Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah ( email )

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