Analysing the behavioural finance impact of 'fake news' phenomena on financial markets: a representative agent model and empirical validation

Abstract This paper proposes an original behavioural finance representative agent model, to explain how fake news’ empirical price impacts can persist in finance despite contradicting the efficient-market hypothesis. The model reconciles empirically-observed price overreactions to fake news with emp...

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Main Author: Bryan Fong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-07-01
Series:Financial Innovation
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-021-00271-z