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Nomen est omen? How and when company name fluency affects return expectations

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2023
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Fenneman, A., Janssen, D.-J., Nolte, S., & Zeisberger, S. (2023). Nomen est omen? How and when company name fluency affects return expectations. PLoS ONE, 18(8), e0287995. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287995

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Investors perceive stocks of companies with fluent names as more profitable. This perception may result from two different channels: a direct, non-deliberate affect toward fluent names or a deliberate interpretation of fluent names as a signal for company quality. We use preregistered experiments to disentangle these channels and test their limitations. Our results indicate the existence of a significant non-deliberate fluency effect, while the deliberate fluency effect can be activated and deactivated in boundary cases. Both effects

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18

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8

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e0287995

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2023-08-16

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2024-01-11

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1932-6203

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Fenneman, A., Janssen, D.-J., Nolte, S., & Zeisberger, S. (2023). Nomen est omen? How and when company name fluency affects return expectations. PLoS ONE, 18(8), e0287995. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287995

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