in this research, role of accruals in elaboration of quality of earning of the companies accepted in mumbai stock exchange has been studied and relationship between quality of earning through accruals and its constituents and abnormal stock return has been studied. the studied sample includes 35 companies in group a of mumbai stock exchange in 2009-2013.fordata analysisandhypothesistesting mult...

In this research, role of accruals in elaboration of quality of earning of the companies accepted in Mumbai Stock Exchange has been studied and relationship between quality of earning through accruals and its constituents and abnormal stock return has been studied. The studied sample includes 35 companies in group A of Mumbai Stock Exchange in 2009-2013.Fordata analysisandhypothesistesting mult...

stock selection criteria play a key role in contrarian portfolio construction. the usual approach is applying cumulative return as stock selection criteria however applying this criterion leads to ranking stocks without considering investment risk. in this study, we analyze contrarian strategies that are based on reward–risk stock selection criteria in contrast to ordinary contrarian strategies...

Reliability and efficacy of accruals and cash flows which are among the most important factors affecting dividend deviation have always been in question and subject to anomalies. The presence of these anomalies in accruals and cash flows and its effect on future returns and the consequences that they can have in country’s investments are the main motives to choose this issue for the current stu...

Modelling stock return generating process as a single factor model, we show analytically that the relation between idiosyncratic volatility measured as variance of the residuals and expected stock return in the cross-section may be represented by a parabola that opens to the left and has horizontal axis. This relation is uncovered for stocks of similar volatility and no abnormal return. The sen...

This paper examines the impact of overlapping return, takeover premium, and method of payment to the long-run post takeover stock return. First, we do not find any statistically significant three-year post takeover abnormal return. Second, we find evidence that overlapping stock return inflates the conventional t-test statistic. Third, we do not find any direct evidence that long-run post takeo...

This paper estimates the long-run stock price effects of excess inventory using nearly 900 excess inventory announcements made by publicly traded firms during 1990-2002. It examines the stock price effects starting one year before through two years after the excess inventory announcement date. Statistically significant abnormal returns are observed during the year before the announcement and on...