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Semi-annual earnings announcements and market reaction: some recent findings for a small capital market

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  • Gert van Huffel
  • Philip Joos
  • Hubert Ooghe

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This paper tries, first, to document the returns response of stocks to unexpected semi-annual earnings after the announcement of these earnings in a small capital market, i.e. the Brussels Stock Exchange (hereafter BSE), and second, to assess the explanations and empirical problems found in the literature concerning the post-earnings announcement drift. The motivation for this research is the introduction of new Belgian legislation initiating the reporting of the semi-annual results of the firms listed on the BSE (Royal Decree of 18 September 1990). We also attempt to avoid potential empirical problems of earlier Belgian studies and use some techniques more comparable with those of recent American studies. The results show that systematic post-earnings announcement drift is found neither for the market mode, nor for the size-adjusted returns model. The results also suggest that the market model is not a descriptively valid pricing model for the BSE or that its parameters are misspecified. When we distinguish between large and small firms, we discover for the size-adjusted returns model a CAR pattern for the large firms consistent with the results reported in the literature. However, the small firms show a puzzling pattern.

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  • Gert van Huffel & Philip Joos & Hubert Ooghe, 1996. "Semi-annual earnings announcements and market reaction: some recent findings for a small capital market," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(4), pages 693-713.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:euract:v:5:y:1996:i:4:p:693-713
    DOI: 10.1080/09638189600000043
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    1. Pascal Dumontier & Bernard Raffournier, 2002. "Accounting and capital markets: a survey of the European evidence," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(1), pages 119-151.
    2. Zhang, Sijia & Gregoriou, Andros, 2020. "Post earnings announcement drift, liquidity and zero leverage firms: Evidence from the UK stock market," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 13-26.
    3. Laivi Laidroo & Zana Grigaliuniene, 2012. "Testing for asymmetries in price reactions to quarterly earnings announcements on Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges during 2000-2009," Baltic Journal of Economics, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, vol. 12(1), pages 61-86, July.
    4. Xi Li & Mingyi Hung & Shiheng Wang, 2015. "Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift in Global Markets: Evidence from an Information Shock," HKUST IEMS Working Paper Series 2015-17, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, revised Mar 2015.
    5. Josef Fink, 2020. "A Review of the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift," Working Paper Series, Social and Economic Sciences 2020-04, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz.
    6. Fink, Josef, 2021. "A review of the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).
    7. Neszveda, Gábor & Csillag, Balázs, 2022. "Gyorsjelentés - lassú árfolyam? A gyorsjelentés utáni árfolyamsodródás vizsgálata a magyar részvénypiacon [Post-earnings announcement drift on the Hungarian stock market]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(7), pages 801-824.

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