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Is Post Earnings Announcement Drift A Priced Risk Factor in Emerging Markets? Chinese evidence

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Title Is Post Earnings Announcement Drift A Priced Risk Factor in Emerging Markets? Chinese evidence
 
Creator Dempsey, Mike
Li, Amanda
 
Subject Post-earnings announcement drift, Earnings surprise, Divergence of opinion, Asset pricing
 
Description  Abstract This study examines the profitability of trading on earnings surprises in the post-earnings announcement period for equities listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges spanning the period 2000 to 2008 when Chinese markets were developing. The paper also examines whether the drift is a priced risk factor. We show that a post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD) anomaly exists inChina. We document that a hedge strategy of going long on stocks in the highest earnings surprise decile and going short on firms in the lowest earnings surprise decile generates 7.92% excess return in the 60 days following the earnings announcement. We also show that the PEAD is a priced risk factor. Our paper is the first to document that PEAD is systematically priced as a risk factor in stock returns.  JEL classification: G11 G14 G15 M41     
 
Publisher Archives of Business Research
 
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Date 2017-06-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/3299
10.14738/abr.56.3299
 
Source Archives of Business Research; Vol 5, No 6 (2017): Archives of Business Research
2054-7404
10.14738/abr.56.2017
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/3299/1886
 
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