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JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Volume 132, Issue 2, Pages 369-383Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.10.006
Keywords
Lottery jackpots; Attention shocks; Attention allocation; Return co-movement; Earnings surprises
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- Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong
- Research Grants Council of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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We hypothesize that when investors pay less attention to financial markets, they rationally allocate relatively more attention to market-level information than to firm-specific information, leading to increases in stock return co-movements. Using large jackpot lotteries as exogenous shocks that attract investors' attention away from the stock market, we find supportive evidence that stock returns co-move more with the market on large jack-pot days. This effect is stronger for stocks preferred by retail investors and is not driven by gambling sentiment. We also find that stock returns are less sensitive to earnings surprises and co-move more with industries on large jackpot days. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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