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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2018.31.3.409

Order restricted inference for testing the investors' attention effect on stock returns  

Kim, Youngrae (Department of Statistics, Seoul National University)
Lim, Johan (Department of Statistics, Seoul National University)
Lee, Sungim (Department of Applied Statistics, Dankook University)
Choi, Sujung (School of Business Administration, Soongsil University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.31, no.3, 2018 , pp. 409-416 More about this Journal
Abstract
Significant research has been conducted in the financial sector on the behavior of investors in the stock market. In this paper, we directly measure the degree of interest using the ranking of the frequency mentioned in the stock message board operated by Daum Communications Corp. and test the fact that the higher ranking of the frequency results in the higher stock returns in order to investigate the attention effect on the stock returns in the Korean stock market. We also propose and apply the likelihood ratio test procedure for order restricted hypotheses in order to test the attention effect. The test results shows that the higher rank in the frequency mentioned in the message board is related to stock returns (p-value < $10^{-6}$). Therefore, we conclude that an investors' attention effects exist in the Korean stock market.
Keywords
attention effect; stock message board; stock market; order restricted inference;
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