This article studies the relationship between initial market response to earnings surprise and subsequent stock price movement.We first develop a new measure – the earnings response elasticity (ERE) – to capture initial market response. It is defined as the absolute value of earnings...

This study of the post – earnings announcement drift and the value – glamour anomaly finds that value stocks have greater information uncertainty, exhibit more-muted initial market reactions to earnings surprises, and have better (more positive or less negative) post – earnings...

This paper studies the relation between immediate market response to corporate earnings announcements and subsequent stock price movement. By adapting an information signal model from Holthausen and Verrecchia (1988), we develop a new measure — the immediate earnings response coefficient...

Using a broad sample of earnings announcements, we find that option call and put implied volatilities become increasingly misaligned as the earnings announcement dates (EAD) get closer. The percentage deviation between call and put implied volatilities increases monotonically in the one-month...