Our study examines whether behavioural theories can explain post-earnings announcement drift (i.e., earnings momentum) in the Spanish market. In particular, we test models proposed by Daniel, Hirshleifer, and Subrahmanyan (1998), Hong and Stein (1999), and Barberis, Shleifer, and Vishny (1998)....

Post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD) is one of the most solidly documented asset pricing anomalies. We use the controlled conditions of an experimental lab to investigate whether earnings autocorrelation is the driving cause of this anomaly. We observe PEAD in settings with uncorrelated and...