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This paper explores the puzzle of inconsistent findings in regard to bank lending decisions and the negative response to bank loan announcements in China. Using firm performance before and after the lending decisions, adjusted for the effects of earnings management, we are able to examine not...

This paper examines the impact of earnings announcements and earnings forecast revisions on stock returns across markets with different levels of maturity. In each market, the objects of interest are the effects of backward-looking earnings announcement information and forward-looking earnings...