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Advertising, Attention, and Financial Markets

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  • Focke, Florens
  • Ruenzi, Stefan
  • Ungeheuer, Michael

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We investigate the impact of product market advertising on investor attention and financial market outcomes. Using daily advertising data allows us to identify short-term effects of advertising. We measure daily investor attention based the company's number of Wikipedia page views. We show that TV and newspaper advertising positively impacts short-term investor attention. It also positively impacts turnover and liquidity, but the effects are not economically significant. Most importantly, asset prices are not influenced by advertising in the short run. These findings are different from studies using yearly advertising expenditures and suggest that attempts to temporarily inflate stock returns via short-term adjustments to advertising are ineffective.

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  • Focke, Florens & Ruenzi, Stefan & Ungeheuer, Michael, 2015. "Advertising, Attention, and Financial Markets," VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy 113032, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • M37 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Advertising

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