Download or read book Differential Precision of Predisclosure Information Across Traders and Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements written by Ashiq Ali and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim and Verrecchia (1991a) propose that volume reaction to a public announcement is proportional to the product of absolute price change at the announcement and a measure of differential precision of predisclosure information across traders. We use ownership by institutions with medium stakes (between 1 to 5 percent of outstanding shares) as a measure of differential information precision, given that these institutional investors, as compared to other institutional and individual investors, are likely to have more precise predisclosure information and are more likely to trade at earnings announcements based on their belief revision about stock value. We examine this proposition in the context of earnings announcements and obtain results consistent with the theory. Tests of the theory by prior studies have yielded somewhat inconclusive results.

Download or read book Rethinking Determinants of Trading Volume at Earnings Announcements written by Alina Lerman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory offers three main determinants of informationally driven trading volume at earnings announcements: pre-announcement difference in private information precision, belief divergence or differential interpretation, and signal strength. In this paper, we empirically test which theoretical determinants best explain earnings announcement volume conditional on the level of earnings news. We first document that, consistent with signal strength, there is a strong positive (negative) association between volume and both contemporaneous and immediately preceding returns for good (bad) earnings news. Next, we explicitly test the association between volume and various proxies for its three theorized determinants conditional on earnings news. We find that trading volume is highly associated with upward (downward) contemporaneous analyst revisions in the presence of good (bad) earnings news. It is also associated with future earnings surprises, the F-score, and the change in shares shorted, especially for good news firms. Volume is moderately associated with proxies of belief divergence, particularly for bad and neutral news firms. Finally, proxies for pre-announcement difference in private information precision do not appear to significantly explain trading volume for any level of earnings news. Examining financial press data we document an association between abnormal volume and coverage of a multitude of news items. Taken together, our results suggest that trading volume at earnings announcements is more reflective of the quantity and quality of information released, but its dynamics significantly vary with the nature of the disclosed news.

Download or read book The Changing Behavior of Trading Volume Reactions to Earnings Announcements written by Orie E. Barron and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increase in investor diversity over the last 35-40 years (ICI 2014) prompted us to revisit trading volume reactions to earnings announcements and how these reactions vary with firm size. This increase in investor diversity would likely lead to an increase in differences in the precision of pre-announcement information and potentially increase the importance of earnings announcements to resolve investor disagreement. We find that the nature of trading volume reactions to earnings announcements has fundamentally changed over the 35-year time period 1977-2011. There has been a dramatic increase in the magnitude and frequency of volume reactions to earnings announcements over this time period, and this effect is more pronounced in large firms where volume reactions were previously infrequent. The increase in large firms' trading volume reactions is so pronounced that the relation between volume reactions and firm size has turned positive in recent years, thereby reversing Bamber's (1986, 1987) previously documented negative relation. We provide intuition and empirical evidence that our results are attributable to the resolution of differential prior precision among an increasingly diverse set of investors following large firms.

Download or read book Predisclosure Trading Volume and Firm Size written by Richard A. Schneible Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atiase [1980] hypothesized that private information production and dissemination prior to an earnings announcement is an increasing function of firm size. The economic rationale behind this hypothesis was that large firms have higher share liquidity, which conceals informed trade and increases the return to private information acquisition. While empirical researchers commonly use firm size as a control variable for the quality of predisclosure information, the economic rationale behind the differential information hypothesis has not been verified. Using all 10 CRSP firm size deciles, we document a positive relation between predisclosure share turnover and firm size. We find that predisclosure share turnover is positively related to institutional investment and analyst following, suggesting that sophisticated investors are attracted to highly liquid firms where they can conceal their informed trades. We also find evidence that predisclosure share turnover increases the amount of earnings-related information impounded in stock price in the predisclosure period, but this effect is driven by small firms. Investors in large firms appear to be successful at concealing their informed trades.

Download or read book Insider Trading Disclosure Information Asymmetry and Differential Earnings Relevance as Indicated By Trading Volume written by Donn W. Vickrey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We use buy and sell signals derived from insider trading disclosures to identify experimental-group cases in which decreases in earnings-related predisclosure information asymmetry have arisen through the use of the disclosures. For each experimental firm, each earnings-announcement date is preceded, within 90 days, by at least 2 specific buy or 2 specific sell signals, while none of these signals occurs within 90 days of any control group earnings-announcement date. Our null hypothesis is that mean differences in experimental and control group earnings-announcement-period trading volumes are greater than or equal to similar mean differences occurring over contiguous non-announcement periods. Rejection of our null, for various periods, implies less earnings relevance for our experimental group vis-agrave;-vis our control group as a consequence of decreases in earnings-related predisclosure information asymmetry for the latter. This result is consistent with the view that changes in firms' information environments are the most pervasive factor explaining secular changes in earnings relevance.

Download or read book The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management written by Ershi Qi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution, CMES, which is the only national-level academic society for Industrial Engineering. The conference is held annually as the major event in this arena. Being the largest and the most authoritative international academic conference held in China, it provides an academic platform for experts and entrepreneurs in the areas of international industrial engineering and management to exchange their research findings. Many experts in various fields from China and around the world gather together at the conference to review, exchange, summarize and promote their achievements in the fields of industrial engineering and engineering management. For example, some experts pay special attention to the current state of the application of related techniques in China as well as their future prospects, such as green product design, quality control and management, supply chain and logistics management to address the need for, amongst other things low-carbon, energy-saving and emission-reduction. They also offer opinions on the outlook for the development of related techniques. The proceedings offers impressive methods and concrete applications for experts from colleges and universities, research institutions and enterprises who are engaged in theoretical research into industrial engineering and engineering management and its applications. As all the papers are of great value from both an academic and a practical point of view, they also provide research data for international scholars who are investigating Chinese style enterprises and engineering management.

Download or read book A Theory of Trading Volume Around Earnings Announcements written by Seok Woo Jeong and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim and Verrecchia (1994) provide a model of trade to explain trading volume around public disclosure which is assumed to be earnings announcement. However, their characterization of information is too general and has no relationship with the accounting information structure. Ohlson (1995) provides a fundamental valuation model that exploits the accounting relationship of earnings, book value, and dividends, but no implication can be made on the trading volume around earnings announcements from his model. We impose an information structure on the Kim and Verrecchia (1994) model whereby some market participants estimate fundamental value of the firm according to Ohlson's (1995) valuation model but differ in their assessment of permanent and transitory components of earnings. Our results demonstrate a positive relation between abnormal earnings and both trading volume and price changes around earnings announcements.

Download or read book Predisclosure Informational Asymmetries Firm Capitalization Financial Reports and Security Price Behavior written by Rowland Kwame Atiase and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Changing Nature of Trading Volume Reactions to Earnings Announcements written by Richard A. Schneible Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document a change in the nature of trading volume reactions to quarterly earnings announcements over the time period 1976-2005. Consistent with Landsman and Maydew (2002), we find that the magnitude of abnormal trading volume around quarterly earnings announcements has increased over time and that this increase is greater for large firms than small firms. We show, however, that this trend has reversed the negative relation between firm size and trading volume documented by Bamber (1987). Applying insights from recent trading volume theory, we predict and provide evidence that the increase in abnormal trading volume across time and firm size is due to increases in pre-announcement private information. Specifically, we show that the component of abnormal trading volume associated with price change, which theory suggests reflects pre-announcement private information, is increasing across time and firm size. Our results suggest that investors are motivated to acquire private information prior to earnings announcements about firms that have relatively high quality information environments. Thus, our results have implications for policies aimed at reducing information asymmetry between investors by increasing public disclosure.

Download or read book Pre Announcement and Event Period Private Information written by Richard A. Schneible Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study cross-sectional differences in pre-announcement and event-period private information acquisition across firm size and institutional ownership using trading volume reactions to earnings announcements. We find that abnormal volume associated with absolute price change increases with both firm size and institutional ownership, suggesting that pre-announcement private information acquisition increases with firm size and institutional ownership. We also find that abnormal volume independent of absolute price change increases with institutional ownership, suggesting that event-period private information acquisition increases with institutional ownership. In contrast, abnormal volume independent of absolute price change decreases with firm size, reflecting the previously documented positive relation between firm size and the precision of pre-announcement public information. By demonstrating that firm size and institutional ownership are determinants of pre-announcement and event--period private information acquisition, this study provides new insights regarding the incentive to acquire private information around earnings announcements and helps explain prior empirical results in trading volume reaction studies.

Download or read book Who Trades During Earnings Announcements Evidence from Torq Data written by Malay K. Dey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using TORQ database we investigate the intra-day trading volume reactions to earnings announcements of five trader groups, individuals, institutions, exchange members, program traders, and specialists. The results of this study indicate that institutions are most active in the immediate aftermath of an announcement. Individual investors are slow at the beginning but accumulate heavy volume afterwards and exceed institutional trading volume. We find support for Harris and Raviv (1993) and Admati and Pfleiderer (1988), who respectively argue that divergence of opinion about a public information and portfolio rebalancing cause surges in pre and post-announcement trading volume. Further we find evidence of swift and aggressive trading by informed and sophisticated institutions in the immediate aftermath of the announcement, and delayed, aggressive trading volume quot;overreactionquot; by quot;slowquot; and quot;overconfidentquot; individual investors as documented by Barber and Odean (2000, 2002) and Daniel et al (1998). NYSE specialists provide bulk of the liquidity needs around earnings announcements.

Download or read book Asymmetric Information and Firms Trading Volume before a Scheduled Announcement written by Jonfilippo Fabiano and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally known that trading volume is positively related to asymmetric information amongst investors, but when there is time discretion, the relation is likely to become negative. The aim of this paper is to empirically verify the existence of this inverse relation for a sample of Swiss listed firms. Trading volume trends are analysed before earnings announcements for a sample of 1540 events distributed across 85 firms from 1995 to 2006. I hypothesize that before an earnings announcement there is a decrease in the firm's trading liquidity due to the presence of asymmetric information amongst investors, and a positive relationship between trading volume and simultaneous changes in stock prices. Moreover, the magnitude of the price change should be higher in the case of a positive earnings release. Event analysis confirms a significant daily average decrease of about 2% in the abnormal volume turnover from 10 to 3 trading days before the announcement, while regression analysis reveals evidence that matching a lower decrease in trading liquidity there will be an upturn in the level of stock prices. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that prior to a positive announcement there will be a higher increase in the firm's share price. The analysis does not show evidence of any relationship between the decrease in trading liquidity, firm size and bid-ask spread.

Download or read book Accounting Earnings Announcements and Differential Predisclosure Information an Empirical Examination written by Teresa M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1986* with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Price and Trading Volume Reactions Around Earnings Announcements an Analytical and Empirical Examination written by Seok Woo Jeong and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Differential Information and Security Returns Surrounding Earnings Announcements on the Over the counter Market written by Donna J. Shores and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Timing Information Information Asymmetry and Trading Volume written by Joon Chae and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating various corporate announcements and abnormal return days, I observe that around 2% of daily trading volume decreases only before scheduled earnings announcements. This empirical pattern is robust across different specifications and periods. Also, proxies of ex ante information asymmetry are consistently related to the trading volume only before scheduled earnings announcements. The timing information existing only in a scheduled announcement seems to have an important role in trading volume dynamics near an announcement. However, the market makers, observing order flows, behave appropriately even without timing information and increase the price sensitivities before all kinds of announcements. These results shed light on the role of a newly observed variable, timing information of an announcement, in investors' trading decision under information asymmetry in the stock market.

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