The Information Content of British and Japanese, Annual and Interim Earnings Announcements

Download or read book The Information Content of British and Japanese, Annual and Interim Earnings Announcements written by Edwin R. Etter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper utilizes daily closing prices on the U.S., British and Japanese markets, and daily trading volume on the U.S. market to investigate whether U.S. investors find information content in British and Japanese, annual and interim earnings announcements. When examining the unexpected price reaction, the vector autoregression (VAR) model is used to filter out the price effect of the earnings announcement in the home (non-U.S.) market in order to isolate the price effect generated by U.S. investors. Results of the price analyses indicate that U.S. investors find information content in both British and Japanese earnings announcements. Next, based on the model of Holthausen and Verrecchia (1990), price and trading volume responses are analyzed concurrently to determine the effect of the foreign earnings announcements on U.S. investors' level of informedness and degree of consensus (components of the information content). In general, the analyses indicate that both British and Japanese earnings announcements increase U.S. investors' level of informedness (i.e., decrease their level of uncertainty), and that British and Japanese earnings announcements have a greater impact on U.S. investors' level of informedness than on their degree of consensus.