Using a broad sample of earnings announcements, we find that option call and put implied volatilities become increasingly misaligned as the earnings announcement dates (EAD) get closer. The percentage deviation between call and put implied volatilities increases monotonically in the one-month...

The SEC's EDGAR log files provide a direct, powerful measure of attention from relatively sophisticated investors. We apply this measure to a sample of earnings announcements from 2003 to 2016. We find that the stock market is less surprised, and the post-earnings-announcement drift is weaker...

This study of the post – earnings announcement drift and the value – glamour anomaly finds that value stocks have greater information uncertainty, exhibit more-muted initial market reactions to earnings surprises, and have better (more positive or less negative) post – earnings...

This paper studies the relation between immediate market response to corporate earnings announcements and subsequent stock price movement. By adapting an information signal model from Holthausen and Verrecchia (1988), we develop a new measure — the immediate earnings response coefficient...

This article studies the relationship between initial market response to earnings surprise and subsequent stock price movement. We first develop a new measure – the earnings response elasticity (ERE) – to capture initial market response. It is defined as the absolute value of earnings...

This article studies the relationship between initial market response to earnings surprise and subsequent stock price movement.We first develop a new measure – the earnings response elasticity (ERE) – to capture initial market response. It is defined as the absolute value of earnings...

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...