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Is Investor Attention for Sale? The Role of Advertising in Financial Markets

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Advertising Targets Customers and Investors? by Wesley R. Gray, Ph.D., Alpha Architect, Author, Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

Is Investor Attention for Sale? The Role of Advertising in Financial Markets

Abstract (from SSRN):

Using detailed data on daily firm advertising activity, we find that print advertisements increase attention to firm’s financial information. Advertisements for products and services are unlikely to target investors, yet are associated with a 3% increase in Google searches for the firm’s ticker. This increase is concentrated on weekends and...

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