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Accounting Quality, Liquidity Risk, and Post†Earnings†Announcement Drift

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  • Jeff Zeyun Chen
  • Gerald J. Lobo
  • Joseph H. Zhang

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Recent microstructure research finds that liquidity risk, in particular its information component, plays an important role in explaining the post†earnings†announcement drift (PEAD). We decompose liquidity risk into an accounting†associated component and a nonaccounting†associated component and examine their relative importance in explaining PEAD. Our research is motivated by recent findings that liquidity risk is a systematic risk and earnings quality is negatively associated with liquidity risk. We find that the accounting†associated component is more strongly related to PEAD returns than is its nonaccounting†associated counterpart. Further analyses reveal that the relation between accounting†associated liquidity risk and PEAD returns is weaker for firms with greater analyst following. We also find that in a significant market downturn, the relation between accounting†associated liquidity risk and PEAD returns becomes more pronounced. Our study is the first to document a liquidity risk†based role of accounting quality in explaining the PEAD phenomenon. It parses out the PEAD risk premia associated with accounting versus nonaccounting sources and, by so doing, sheds light on the role of accounting quality in shaping the liquidity risk†PEAD returns relation.Selon les recherches récentes en microstructure, le risque de liquidité, et en particulier son volet information, joue un rôle important dans l'explication des mouvements postérieurs à la publication des résultats (MPPR). Les auteurs décomposent le risque de liquidité en deux éléments : le premier qui est associé à l'information comptable et le second qui ne l'est pas. Ils examinent ensuite l'importance relative de ces éléments dans l'explication des MPPR. Les récentes observations selon lesquelles le risque de liquidité est un risque systématique et la qualité des résultats est en relation négative avec le risque de liquidité motivent leur étude. Les auteurs constatent que la relation avec les rendements suivant les MPPR est plus marquée dans le cas de l’élément associé à l'information comptable que dans celui de l’élément qui ne l'est pas. Des analyses plus poussées révèlent que la relation entre le risque de liquidité associé à l'information comptable et les rendements suivant les MPPR est plus ténue dans le cas des sociétés plus étroitement suivies par les analystes. Les auteurs constatent également qu'en situation de ralentissement important du marché, la relation entre le risque de liquidité associé à l'information comptable et les rendements suivant les MPPR s'accentue. Cette étude est la première à documenter le rôle de la qualité de l'information en fonction du risque de liquidité dans l'explication des MPPR. Elle établit la distinction entre les primes de risque du MPPR liées aux sources qui sont associées à l'information comptable par rapport à celles qui ne le sont pas et, ce faisant, jette un éclairage sur le rôle de la qualité de l'information comptable dans le façonnement de la relation entre le risque de liquidité et les rendements suivant les MPPR.

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  • Jeff Zeyun Chen & Gerald J. Lobo & Joseph H. Zhang, 2017. "Accounting Quality, Liquidity Risk, and Post†Earnings†Announcement Drift," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 34(3), pages 1649-1680, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:34:y:2017:i:3:p:1649-1680
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12310
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    1. Baochen Yang & Yifang Liu & Yunpeng Su, 2023. "Earnings communication conferences and post‐earnings‐announcement drift: Evidence from China," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 63(2), pages 2145-2185, June.
    2. 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.
    3. Fink, Josef, 2021. "A review of the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).
    4. Kung‐Cheng Ho & Yujing Gong, 2022. "Information asymmetry and capital structure: Evidence from the Chinese stock market," International Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(1), pages 84-102, April.

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