We document that firms are 80% more likely to issue non-earnings press releases during the earnings announcement period when delivering extremely negative earnings news. These non-earnings press releases are insufficient to improve negative announcement returns in isolation. However, if the...

We examine how media coverage's of Central Bank communications impact Jordanian stock market returns using both EWMA and GARCH models over the period 2000–2012. We investigate this fundamental impact of the media on financial markets by incorporating endogenous media news and analysis coverage...

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relation between a target firm’s media coverage (measured by degree of media coverage, positive and negative media coverage) and various takeover characteristics. We find that media coverage is negatively associated with the takeover...