TY - JOUR T1 - Practical Applications of Twitter Sentiment and IPO Performance: <em>A Cross-Sectional Examination</em> JF - Practical Applications SP - 1 LP - 4 DO - 10.3905/pa.2017.5.1.225 VL - 5 IS - 1 AU - Jim Kyung-Soo Liew AU - Garrett Zhengyuan Wang A2 - Mack, Barbara J. Y1 - 2017/07/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/5/1/1.5.abstract N2 - Twitter Sentiment and IPO Performance: A Cross-Sectional Examination Jim Kyung-Soo Liew Garrett Zhengyuan Wang In recent years, the rise of social media has generated opportunities for collecting vast amounts of user data; the question is: How useful is it and what are the lessons that can be drawn from it? Jim Kyung-Soo Liew and Garrett Zhengyuan Wang of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School examine this new field in Twitter Sentiment and IPO Performance: A Cross-Sectional Examination , which was published in the Summer 2016 issue of The Journal of Portfolio Management . Focusing strictly on the financial markets, they assess how a proper sentiment model can serve investment banks, quant funds, and hedge funds in their quest for keys to human behavior and investment.TOPICS: In markets, quantitative methods ER -