The authors examined the potential profitability of a strategy that exploits the post-earnings announcement drifts contingent on jump dynamics identified in stock prices around earnings announcements. With long positions in positive-jump stocks and short positions in negative-jump stocks, their...

Jump dynamics vary greatly across stocks. However, little is known about the causes of such variations and their associations to various firm characteristics. Controlling for information shocks from quarterly earnings announcements, we examine cross-sectional determinants of jumps in stock...