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Rumors

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, 2003
ABSTRACTA Kyle (1985) model with private information diffusion is used to examine the motivation to spread stock tips. An informed investor with limited investment capacity spreads imprecise rumors to an audience of followers. Followers trade on the advice and move the price.
VAN BOMMEL, Jos
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M&A rumors about unlisted firms [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Financial Economics, 2021
We examine 68,044 completed or abandoned M&A transactions involving unlisted targets to determine the effect of transaction rumors on deal-closing propensity and transaction values. Estimation is challenging because rumors may be spread on purpose or
Yan Alperovych   +2 more
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Rumor, an Anarchimedium

Paragraph, 2023
Beyond the only text Jean-Luc Nancy explicitly dedicated to it (‘Rumoration’ in La Ville au loin), rumor lurks in the background — under the surface — of any discourse on community, or on being-with. Following closely Nancy’s thought process in ‘Rumoration’ (Nancy presents himself as walking, wandering in the city), this article interweaves fragments ...
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Classification of rumors and counter-rumors

2018 4th International Conference on Information Management (ICIM), 2018
Rumors are posing a serious threat in this digital era. They spread fast and wide on social media to become viral. While some users are deceived by rumors, others explicitly seek to debunk them. In consequence, two opposite forces of claims, namely, rumors and counter-rumors emerge.
Anjan Pal, Alton Y. K. Chua
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Rumor Gauge

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2017
The spread of malicious or accidental misinformation in social media, especially in time-sensitive situations, such as real-world emergencies, can have harmful effects on individuals and society. In this work, we developed models for automated verification of rumors (unverified information) that propagate through Twitter.
Soroush Vosoughi   +2 more
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Anxiety and Rumor

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1973
Summary This study explored rumor transmission as a function of the anxiety of the group exposed to that rumor. Four eight-member groups which were designated either as high anxiety or low anxiety on the basis of scores on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS) were presented with a rumor through a sociometrically selected individual.
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On Spreading a Rumor

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 1987
Suppose that one of n people knows a rumor. At the first stage, he passes the rumor to someone chosen at random; at each stage, each person already informed (''knower'') communicates the rumor to a person chosen at random and independently of all other past and present choices. Denote by \(S_ n\) the random number of stages before everybody is informed.
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