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Is Sound Just Noise?
Article first published online: 17 DEC 2002
DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00393
The American Finance Association 2001
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Coval, J. D. and Shumway, T. (2001), Is Sound Just Noise?. The Journal of Finance, 56: 1887–1910. doi: 10.1111/0022-1082.00393
Publication History
- Issue published online: 17 DEC 2002
- Article first published online: 17 DEC 2002
- Abstract
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We analyze the information content of the ambient noise level in the Chicago Board of Trade's 30-year Treasury Bond futures trading pit. Controlling for a variety of other variables, including lagged price changes, trading volumes, and news announcements, we find that the sound level conveys information which is highly economically and statistically significant. Specifically, changes in the sound level forecast changes in the cost of transacting. Following a rise in the sound level, prices become more volatile, depth declines, and information asymmetry increases. Our results offer important implications for the future of open outcry and floor-based trading mechanisms.