Investor Sentiment in Asset Pricing Models: A Review of Empirical Evidence
Investor Sentiment in Asset Pricing Models: A Review of Empirical Evidence ArXiv ID: 2411.13180 “View on arXiv” Authors: Unknown Abstract This study conducted a comprehensive review of 71 papers published between 2000 and 2021 that employed various measures of investor sentiment to model returns. The analysis indicates that higher complexity of sentiment measures and models improves the coefficient of determination. However, there was insufficient evidence to support that models incorporating more complex sentiment measures have better predictive power than those employing simpler proxies. Additionally, the significance of sentiment varies based on the asset and time period being analyzed, suggesting that the consensus relying on the BW index as a sentiment measure may be subject to change. ...