Kolari, James W.; Pynnönen, Seppo - In: Review of Financial Studies 23 (2010) 11, pp. 3996-4025
This article examines the issue of cross-sectional correlation in event studies. When there is event-date clustering, we find that even relatively low cross-correlation among abnormal returns is serious in terms of over-rejecting the null hypothesis of zero average abnormal returns. We propose a...