Social media attention and retail investor behavior: Evidence from r/wallstreetbets
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Risk-taking; Investor welfare; Social media; Reddit; Emotions; Natural-language-processing;All these keywords.
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- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
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