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ability to profit from post-earnings announcement drift. The more muted reaction of institutional traders to earnings releases …
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Two ex-ante variables are introduced to characterize the analysts' biased behavior, namely the analysts' disagreement and self-selection in analysts' earnings forecasts. The study investigates the impact of the analysts' disagreement and self-selection on the stock returns. A theoretical...
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This study investigates the relationship between investor inattention and earnings announcement effects around a Chinese holiday called Tomb-Sweeping Day, which, unlike other holidays, is short. Not only is investor attention distracted, which can generate emotional fluctuation, but a large...
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This paper examines the profits of revenue, earnings, and price momentum strategies in an attempt to understand investor reactions when facing multiple information of firm performance in various scenarios. We first offer evidence that there is no dominating momentum strategy among the revenue,...
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I examine whether managers use discretion in revenue recognition to avoid three earnings benchmarks. I find that managers use discretion in both accrued revenue (i.e., accounts receivable) and deferred revenue (i.e., advances from customers) to avoid negative earnings surprises, but find little...
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We estimate the effects of peer benchmarking by institutional investors on asset prices. To identify trades purely due … to peer benchmarking as separate from those based on fundamentals or private information, we exploit a natural experiment … component of demand that is caused by peer benchmarking. We find that these peer effects generate excess stock return volatility …
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Using a unique and large dataset of trading records, we find that individual investors view zero returns as a natural benchmark for their trading performance. They increase both buy and sell trading volume if their past investment outcomes are positive, and decrease them if the outcomes are...
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The deepening of the recent crisis was driven by the simultaneous devaluation of stock wealth, housing wealth and commodity wealth. The potential for this devaluation process had been “built up” during the boom of stock prices, house prices and commodity prices between 2003 and 2007. Hence,...
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