...Terence J. Pitre; Robert Pinsker; Ronald J. Daigle; Yibo Zhang (James) ABSTRACT Using Twitter to disseminate information has two advantages: flexibility in presentation formats and the ability to redisclose a prior period’s information—referred to as “rehashing.” Our research examines the effect...

...Yen-Yao Wang ABSTRACT This paper presents the Python code and illustrative crisis management data from Twitter. The code includes Twitter data collection and three machine learning algorithms that are readily usable. Three machine learning algorithms generate sentiment measures, extract topics...

... positive judgments of the CEO. Specifically, our model predicts CEO disclosures via Twitter, versus web-based disclosures, lead to enhanced perceptions of social capital, which in turn positively impact investor recommendations for CEO compensation. Using an experiment with individual investors, our...

...Lijun (Gillian) Lei; Yutao Li; Yan Luo ABSTRACT This study uses a sample of 1,316 firm-year observations of S&P 500 companies (2012–2016) to investigate whether and how social media (i.e., Twitter) affects firms' voluntary nonfinancial disclosure (i.e., corporate political disclosure). Our...

...Roger S. Debreceny; Asheq Rahman; Tawei Wang ABSTRACT This research proposes a Corporation Network Centrality Score (CNCS) that exploits the social network implicit in Twitter interactions that are relevant to capital markets. The CNCS is the eigenvector network centrality score for interactions...

...Maria Prokofieva ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effect of dissemination of corporate disclosure via Twitter. In particular, the study is focused on listed companies in Australia that employed Twitter as a secondary dissemination channel for corporate announcements in 2008–2013. Based...

...Mi (Jamie) Zhou; Lijun (Gillian) Lei; Jianling Wang; Weiguo (Patrick) Fan; Alan G. Wang ABSTRACT This study examines 9,861 public firms to investigate the current adoption status of two popular social media platforms (Facebook™ and Twitter™) and their application in corporate disclosure...