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The individual motivation of investors' gambling mentality: Empirical evidence from gambling sentiment and lottery‐type stocks

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  • Zewei Long
  • Wei Wang
  • Haohua Li
  • Xinghao Huang

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We construct a measure of public gambling sentiment using the Baidu index and empirically examine the influence of temporal fluctuations in gambling sentiment on the performance of lottery‐type stocks. The empirical findings reveal that heightened gambling sentiment correlates with increased selling volume, short‐term order imbalances and liquidity in the lottery‐type stock market, while diminishing abnormal returns, including the initial returns of IPOs. We attribute this to investors' gambling mentality stemming from the accumulation of wealth rather than the pursuit of excitement, as they view lotteries and lottery‐related stocks as interchangeable investment options.

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  • Zewei Long & Wei Wang & Haohua Li & Xinghao Huang, 2024. "The individual motivation of investors' gambling mentality: Empirical evidence from gambling sentiment and lottery‐type stocks," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 64(5), pages 4515-4536, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:64:y:2024:i:5:p:4515-4536
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.13271
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