Chinese retail investors are well-known for their speculative and irrational behavior, and their informational role has often been perceived as “questionable.” We highlight the findings of a research paper that examines the role of retail investors in information discovery and dissemination based on NLP-enabled text analysis.

The following research paper takes a three-pronged approach to tracing the emergence of new technologies within firms and industries: patent filings, earnings calls, and geolocated, role-specific hiring activity metrics.