Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures

Cheng, S. F., De Franco, G., Jiang, H., & Lin, P. (2019). Riding the blockchain mania: Public firms’ speculative 8-K disclosures. Management Science, 65(12), 5901-5913. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3357

Recently, Cheng et al. (2019) has shown that publicly-traded firms that mentioned speculative blockchain-related in their 8-K disclosures enjoy a positive but transitory stock price increase. Here, we replicate their search procedure using conference call transcripts.

Define search parameters

Call the search endpoint