Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the information value of earnings announcements for the 2007-2017 period in Borsa Istanbul. Design/methodology/approach - Abnormal volatility (AVOL) and abnormal absolute return (AAR) in the three-day window around the earnings announcement are...

We test whether the well-documented post-earnings-announcement drift is a manifestation of an investor underreaction or overreaction to extremely good or bad earnings news. Using the market reaction to extreme earnings surprises (i.e., SUE) in quarter Qt as a reference point, we show that firms...

We examine whether the level of trust in a country affects investors' perception and utilization of information transmitted by firms through financial disclosure. Specifically, we investigate the effect of societal trust on investor reactions to corporate earnings announcements. We test two...

Modern society is driven by electricity usage. I construct a proxy tracing regional economic intensity using electricity usage provided by utility firms in the United States from 1990 to 2020. After comparing electricity usage growth with common regional consumption measures, I find it a leading...

The existing literature shows that, due to locality and familiarity, spatial investor-firm adjacency plays a key role in determining stock investor attention, as proxied by the location where investors initiate an Internet search of the ticker symbol. This paper investigates whether Chinese...