How does news sentiment impact asset volatility? Evidence from long memory and regime-switching approaches

Kin-Yip Ho, Yanlin Shi and Zhaoyong Zhang

The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, vol. 26, issue C, 436-456

Abstract: This paper examines the dynamic relationship between firm-level return volatility and public news sentiment. By using the new RavenPack News Analytics – Dow Jones Edition database that captures over 1200 types of firm-specific and macroeconomic news releases and their sentiment scores at high frequencies, we investigate the circumstances in which public news sentiment is related to the intraday volatility of the constituent stocks in the Dow Jones Composite Average (DJN 65). Two different conditionally heteroskedastic models are employed: the Fractionally Integrated Generalized Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroskedastic (FIGARCH) and the two-state Markov Regime-Switching GARCH (RS-GARCH) models. For most of the DJN 65 stocks, our results confirm the significant impact of firm-specific news sentiment on intraday volatility persistence, even after controlling for the potential effects of macroeconomic news. Compared with macroeconomic news sentiment, firm-specific news sentiment apparently accounts for a greater proportion of overall volatility persistence. Moreover, negative news has a greater impact on volatility than positive news. Furthermore, the results from the RS-GARCH model indicate that news sentiment accounts for a greater proportion of volatility persistence in the high-volatility regime (turbulent state) than in the low-volatility regime (calm state). In-sample forecasting performance and residual diagnostic tests suggest that FIGARCH generally outperforms RS-GARCH.

Keywords: Public information arrival; Asset volatility; News sentiment; FIGARCH; Markov Regime-Switching GARCH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2013.02.015

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