On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index

Measuring investor sentiment has become one of the most widely examined areas in behavioral finance. For the purpose of measuring investor sentiment more accurately, we classify the investor sentiment proxy into six market dimensions for the first time, and construct the investor sentiment monitorin...

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Main Authors: Gang He, Shuzhen Zhu, Haifeng Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Cogent Economics & Finance
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2017.1412230
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description Measuring investor sentiment has become one of the most widely examined areas in behavioral finance. For the purpose of measuring investor sentiment more accurately, we classify the investor sentiment proxy into six market dimensions for the first time, and construct the investor sentiment monitoring index system. By using PCA method and excluding macroeconomic factors, we construct comprehensive investor sentiment index in Chinese stock market. Our results show this index as a good prediction ability to stock market.
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spelling doaj.art-5bbcb571bfe4496c9485340e30dfab5f2022-12-21T19:46:53ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Economics & Finance2332-20392017-01-015110.1080/23322039.2017.14122301412230On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment indexGang He0Shuzhen Zhu1Haifeng Gu2Donghua UniversityDonghua UniversityDonghua UniversityMeasuring investor sentiment has become one of the most widely examined areas in behavioral finance. For the purpose of measuring investor sentiment more accurately, we classify the investor sentiment proxy into six market dimensions for the first time, and construct the investor sentiment monitoring index system. By using PCA method and excluding macroeconomic factors, we construct comprehensive investor sentiment index in Chinese stock market. Our results show this index as a good prediction ability to stock market.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2017.1412230investor sentimentmonitoring systemcomposite index
spellingShingle Gang He
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On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index
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investor sentiment
monitoring system
composite index
title On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index
title_full On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index
title_fullStr On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index
title_full_unstemmed On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index
title_short On the construction of Chinese stock market investor sentiment index
title_sort on the construction of chinese stock market investor sentiment index
topic investor sentiment
monitoring system
composite index
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2017.1412230
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