The aim of this study is analyzed empirically the effect that annual earnings announcementshave in market value and the trading volume of shares on the Spanish Stock Market for the periodbetween 1999 and 2001. With the finality to accomplish a more complete analysis, is examined theactual...

Most of studies which have analysed the topic of accounting systemclassification have been based on explanatory variables such as the socio-economicenvironment or accounting practices to both, measure and disclosure the financialinformation. This investigation does not take these concepts into...

Several studies have shown that the contrarian strategy, or the forming of a zeroinvestmentportfolio that buys the stocks that have performed poorly in the past (losers) andsells those that have performed well (winners), creates abnormally positive returns in thefuture. Many hypotheses have been...

Previous evidence has demonstrated that the momentum effect is present in the Spanish stockmarket, and that it can not be explained neither by the CAPM nor the Fama&French (1993) threefactor model. The aim of this paper is to deepen in the possible explanations of such phenomenon byanalyzing two...

In a previous work, Forner and Marhuenda (2001) find that the contrarian strategy, thatis, the forming of a zero-investment portfolio that buys the stocks that have performed poorly inthe past (losers) and sells those that have performed well (winners), does not yield abnormallypositive returns...