We investigate whether Chinese cryptocurrency investors show confirmatory bias when processing authority-related news. Authority-related news is defined as news that is related to government authority (including central bank) policies or talk. By using data from the largest cryptocurrency exchange in China, we find that investors' response to authority-related news is negative and significant in general. Moreover, we find that the abnormal trading volume and standard deviation of abnormal trading volume are significantly higher for authority-related news with higher readability, suggesting investors respond to the more readable authority-related news with more trading behaviour.
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