The differential impact of corporate blockchain-development as conditioned by sentiment and financial desperation

【Author】 Cioroianu, Iulia; Corbet, Shaen; Larkin, Charles

【Source】JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE

【影响因子】5.107

【Abstract】This paper investigates how companies can utilise Twitter social media-derived sentiment as a method of generating short-term corporate value from statements based on initiated blockchaindevelopment. Results indicate that investors were subjected to a very sophisticated form of asymmetric information designed to propel sentiment and market euphoria, that translates into increased access to leverage on the part of speculative firms. Technological-development firms are found to financially behave in a profoundly different fashion to reactionary-driven firms which have no background in ICT technological development, and who experience an estimated increased one-year probability of default of 170 bps. Rating agencies are found to have underestimated the risk on-boarded by these speculative firms, failing to identify that they should be placed under an increased degree of scrutiny. Unfiltered market sentiment information, regulatory unpreparedness and mis-pricing by trusted market observers has resulted in a situation where investors and lenders have been compromised by direct exposure to an asset class becoming known for law-breaking activity, financial losses and frequent reputational damage.

【Keywords】Investor sentiment; Blockchain; Leverage; Idiosyncratic volatility; Social media

【发表时间】2021 FEB

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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