The role of Reddit in the GameStop short squeeze

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Economics Letters

Abstract

We present evidence that the tone of r/wallstreetbets (WSB) discussions displayed significant predictive associations with intraday GameStop variables and that the comment distribution obeyed a power law and in fact it was 462 users whose posts most impacted GME.

Publication Date

28-12-2021

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

Vol.211

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