Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction

Jonathan Clarke
Jonathan Clarke
Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308;
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Hailiang Chen
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Hailiang Chen
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9243-0718
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Ding Du
Ding Du
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Yu Jeffrey Hu
Yu Jeffrey Hu
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8482-4899
Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308;
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Jonathan Clarke

Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308;

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Hailiang Chen

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Hailiang Chen

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Ding Du

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Yu Jeffrey Hu

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Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308;

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Published Online:23 Jul 2020https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2019.0910

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