The study documents high information content and Post-Earning Announcement Drift (PEAD) phenomenon of the turnaround companies in India. Turnaround companies are defined as those which after reporting accounting loss consecutively for two or more quarters announce profit for the first time. By...

This paper is concerned with the ability of marketing investments to convey information from the “black box” of the firm to participants in the financial markets. We focus on the context of sales force resizing announcements in the pharmaceutical industry because the sales force comprises...

The investor composition in the US stock market has been undergoing a dramatic shift towards greater institutional ownership. In this paper, we show that the increase in the stock ownership by institutions over time, especially those with focus on short-term performance, is positively related to...

Using the special event of short selling ban removal in the Chinese stock market in March 2010, I study the relationship between short selling activities and future stock returns and the effect of short sale constraints on stock price reactions to earnings announcements. I find strong evidence...