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Changes in the Behavior of Earnings Surprise: International Evidence & Implications

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Earnings surprise has been shown to be an important driver of the underreaction/overreaction price response of stocks to new information. The received wisdom has been that financial analysts' forecasts have typically been optimistic, resulting in a negative bias in earnings surprise. In an international study of trends between 1976 and 1999, the authors suggest a change in the behavior of earnings surprise. In the U.S. market, analysts have become quite pessimistic in their earnings forecasts, and an increasing number of U.S. firms have announced small positive earnings surprises; the findings in Japan are exactly the opposite. A major driving force behind differences in behavior has been the relative state of the two economies, and in the U.S. growth in the use of stock options has caused management to be more interested in boosting the short-term share price.

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  • Ron Bird & John McKinnon, 2001. "Changes in the Behavior of Earnings Surprise: International Evidence & Implications," Published Paper Series 2001-1, Finance Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney.
    • Handle: RePEc:uts:ppaper:2001-1
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    1. Bird, R. & Menzies, G. & Dixon, P. & Rimmer, M., 2011. "The economic costs of US stock mispricing," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 552-567, July.

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