CEO Confidence and Stock Returns
Abstract
In this research, I explore whether announcements of CEO confidence contain new information for investors. Information asymmetry implies that insiders such as Chief Executive Officers should have better information regarding the firm prospects than the average stock market participant. Thus, announcements of CEO perceptions may provide valuable insights to investors. Utilizing The Conference Board quarterly measures of CEO confidence and CEO six-month economic outlook, I find significant correlations between changes in CEO outlook and the announcement date returns on three major stock market indexes. These correlations are larger and more significant for indexes of smaller companies, implying announcements of CEO confidence provide unique and valuable information to stock markets.Download Info
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Paper provided by University of Central Missouri, Department of Economics & Finance in its series Working Papers with number 0808.Length: 6 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2008
Date of revision: Aug 2008
Publication status: forthcoming.
Handle: RePEc:umn:wpaper:0808
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Keywords: CEO Confidence; Consumer Confidence; Stock Returns; Asymmetric Information;This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-ALL-2008-08-31 (All new papers)
- NEP-BEC-2008-08-31 (Business Economics)
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- W. Jos Jansen & Niek J. Nahuis, 2002.
"The Stock Market and Consumer Confidence: European Evidence,"
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2002-11, Netherlands Central Bank, Monetary and Economic Policy Department.
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- O. David Gulley & Jahangir Sultan, 1998. "Consumer confidence announcements: do they matter?," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 155-166.
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