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The vast of literature concerning the reaction to macroeconomic announcements focus on American releases and their impact on returns and volatility. We are interested if the news from the German and the Polish economy are significant for the stock exchanges in these two countries. Using...
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Originally developed as a statistical tool for empirical research in accounting and finance, event studies have since migrated to other disciplines as well, including economics, history, law, management, marketing, and political science. Despite the elegant simplicity of a standard event study,...
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We examine the impact of international monetary policy and professionals' announcements on WTI crude oil futures. The methodology is an event and case study. The event study refers to an analysis of each category of events, while the case study refers to the selection of a particular time...
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The aim of the paper is to compare reactions of two stock markets, the German and the French, to releases of macroeconomic fundamentals emanating from Germany and the U.S. We examine the reaction of intraday returns and volatility of the CAC40 and the DAX indices to macroeconomic surprises. We...
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Information moves stock prices. A vast literature has arisen to exploit and explain that fact. Applied researchers in a variety of fields have used stock market reactions to assess public policy changes. Most of that research has assumed that the information is released on a small set of...
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The last 60 years of research striving to explain the post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD) have resulted in numerous potential explanations. This ”zoo” of explanations, limited academic consensus, and a literature relying on thousands of earnings announcement make researchers able to...
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This study aims to investigate the effect of bond issuance announcements and to determine the company characteristics that could influence this effect. The findings reveal positive cumulative average abnormal returns following bond issuances, indicating that the market considers bond offers to...
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In present study, I explore intraday behavior of stock prices. In particular, I try to shed light on the dynamics of stock price reversals and namely, on the short-term character the latter may possess. For each of the stocks currently making up the Dow Jones Industrial Index, I calculate...
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This paper provides evidence that the 52-week high serves as a psychological barrier, inducing expectational errors and underreaction to news. Two clear predictions emerge and are confirmed in the data. First, nearness to a 52-week high induces expectational errors; evidence from earnings...
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We analyze the earnings information and stock prices of S&P500 firms and find that investors following S&P500 stocks (i) respond more to pro forma earnings than to GAAP earnings, (ii) respond to an emphasis on pro forma earnings, and (iii) are fixated on pro forma earnings. We provide the first...
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