Rodrigo Abbade Da Silva, Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa Jr, Pedro Piccoli, M. Rocha Armada
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Abstract
This study, based on Ahmed’s (2017) work for the US market, examines whether the prices of shares traded on the stock market of a developing country, such as Brazil, can also be influenced by noise traders who make their decisions based on irrelevant information. Using data from the Brazilian stock market between Jan/2003 and Sep/2018 we show that irrelevant firm characteristics are associated with variations in capital gains overhang (CGO), a proxy for the disposition effect bias. Our results are quite similar to those found by Ahmed (2017) for the US. However, the two markets show different results for the relationship between CGO and market liquidity and systematic risk for the entire sample period. Also, we find that there is an inverse relationship between investor sentiment and CGO at times of market upward movement. Overall, the influence of variables considered irrelevant was confirmed in robustness checks. These results may imply that noise traders evaluate stocks and companies based on their irrelevant characteristics, and this behavior, which is not compensated for by rational investors, temporarily influences the market by generating price distortions like the disposition effect.
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Contaduría y Administración (Accounting and Management)is a quarterly journal aimed to the academic community. Being peer-reviewed by double blind process,seeks to contribute to the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge in the financial and administrative disciplines. This journal publishes original theoretical or applied research (No case studies, descriptive and exploratory) in Spanish and English on the following subjects: • Organization Management • Production Management and Operations • Human Resources Management • Management of Information Technology • Accounting and Auditing • Management and Leadership • Business Economics • Entrepreneurship • Business Environment • Finance • Operations Research • Innovation and Technological Change in Organizations • Marketing • Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises • Planning and Business Strategies • Management Theory • Financial Theory • Business Decisions Contaduría y Administración (Accounting and Management) also receives research papers on related areas to the above mentioned.