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Can individual investors identify economic links? Evidence from initial quarterly earnings announcements within industries

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  • Yilin Luo
  • Jianqiao Hong
  • Chenkai Ni
  • Guochen Wang

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We examine whether individual investors in China have the ability to acquire and process the information of industry peers. We exploit the initial earnings announcement within each industry-quarter during 2015-2017 and use the frequency of investors’ daily discussions on the Xue Qiu platform to capture their information acquisition activities. We find that non-announcing firms’ investors exhibit a significant increase in their discussion frequency around the initial earnings announcement within an industry. These increased discussions facilitate the information transfer from the announcing firm to its non-announcing peers, manifested by the latter’s reactions in share prices and trading volume to the former’s unexpected earnings. In the cross-section, investors’ acquisition and processing of peer information are more pronounced when non-announcing firms exhibit a worse information environment or a stronger economic link with the announcing firm. Collectively, individual investors in China exhibit some rationality in acquiring and utilizing information of economically linked firms.

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  • Yilin Luo & Jianqiao Hong & Chenkai Ni & Guochen Wang, 2020. "Can individual investors identify economic links? Evidence from initial quarterly earnings announcements within industries," China Journal of Accounting Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 121-153, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcjaxx:v:8:y:2020:i:1:p:121-153
    DOI: 10.1080/21697213.2020.1813970
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