Retail Derivatives and Sentiment: A Sentiment Measure Constructed from Issuances of Retail Structured Equity Products
Journal of Finance
113 Pages Posted: 29 Jul 2020 Last revised: 13 Jan 2023
Date Written: December 7, 2022
Abstract
We use retail Structured Equity Product (SEP) issuances to construct a new sentiment measure for large capitalization stocks. The SEP sentiment measure predicts negative abnormal returns on the SEP reference stocks based on a variety of factor models, and also predicts returns in Fama-MacBeth regressions that include a wide range of covariates. Consistent with our interpretation that SEP issuances reflect investor sentiment, aggregate SEP issuances are highly correlated with the Baker-Wurgler sentiment index. Tobit regressions reveal that proxies for attention and sentiment predict SEP issuance volumes, providing additional evidence consistent with the hypothesis that SEP issuances reflect sentiment.
Keywords: Structured equity products, sentiment, cross-section of returns, predictability
JEL Classification: G13, G14, G23
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