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title: Social Networks in Investment
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4770096/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4770096
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4770096
featured: 2024-03-27
citations: unknown
topic: Derivatives & Volatility
---


# Social Networks in Investment

The study finds that investors gather more public information about firms they are socially closer to, leading to predicted short-term earnings, stock returns, and increased volatility.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4770096
- Identifier: SSRN 4770096
- Released: 2023-12-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 42 (2024-03-27): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-03-27/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Derivatives & Volatility

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