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...

The SEC's EDGAR log files provide a direct, powerful measure of attention from relatively sophisticated investors. We apply this measure to a sample of earnings announcements from 2003 to 2016. We find that the stock market is less surprised, and the post-earnings-announcement drift is weaker...

By using a unique dataset of daily short covering volumes obtained from the Taiwan Stock Exchange, we first examine, in general, what drives daily short covering activity in the cross-section and its return predictability; we then investigate, in specific, the relation between short covering and...

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...

In this study, we take advantage of the unique features of the Taiwan stock market, where short selling is forbidden within the first six months following an IPO. We examine the effects of short selling on IPO price efficiency and the relation between short selling activities and the fundamental...

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 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...