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Showing 1 to 20 of 372 for “"announcement"”.
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Merger Announcement Returns with Preparations
… analyzes the relationship between the merger announcement returns and the bidding firms' preparations for mergers. In this study, merger preparations are defined as bidding firms' adaptive actions of changing their executives prior to mergers. An analysis of the relative effectiveness of …
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A new approach to studying earnings announcement timing : why do firms change earnings announcement dates?
… incentives to strategically time their earnings announcements. I propose and implement a novel approach to isolating the impact of the relative ordering of different firms' earnings announcements on market outcomes. This approach relies on quasi-exogenous variation in the relative timing of …
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Bank capital: definition, adequacy and issue announcement effects
… returns, and their patterns, coincident with the announcement of bank capital issues. Potential influences considered include increased regulatory pressure, conflicting regulatory and market views of bank capital adequacy and the relative predictability of security type. Where possible, the …
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Bank Efficiency Dynamics and Market Reaction around Merger Announcement
We study, using the non-parametric data envelopment approach, we investigated the long-run profit efficiency dynamics and the short-run market reaction of nine pre-classified merger deals of merging and non-merging U.S. banks over the time period from 1992 to 2003. Our main results are as follows: …
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Passive Institutional Ownership, Firm Disclosure, and Post-earnings Announcement Drift
… ownership on market reactions to earnings announcements. The improved information environment, which is associated with increased passive ownership, can reduce transaction costs and mitigate delayed reactions. Besides, as firm disclosure can resolve uncertainty in future earnings, investors …
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Impact of project announcement on areas planned for urban renewal
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1964.
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The Composition of Tripolar Announcement Stories in the Gospel of Mark
<p>In the Gospel of Mark one finds narratives with three main characters. These stories, which belong to the category of pronouncement stories, I call tripolar pronouncement stories. These narratives have not been recognized, nor has their significance been examined.</p> <p>I utilize in my study …
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Analysts' long-term growth forecasts and the post-earnings-announcement drift
… growth (LTG) forecasts and the post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD). Using a sample of firm-quarters from 1995 to 2013, I find that the magnitude of PEAD is significantly smaller for firms with LTG forecasts. The relationship holds after controlling for a wide range of explanatory variables …
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A Re-Examination of the Market's Reaction to Quarterly Dividend Change Announcement
… ratio at the time of the dividend change announcement.
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The announcement waiting game : holding costs, trading, and returns around earnings announcements
… anomalies earn large returns around earnings announcements. This paper advances an explanation for this phenomenon based on holding costs, which are costs incurred by investors while maintaining an existing position. Since holding costs raise the marginal cost of holding a position, I …
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The reaction of stock prices to dividend announcement and market efficiency in Namibia
… and the reaction of stock prices to divided announcements have seldom been conducted in Namibia. This study has therefore been conducted to bridge the gap that exists in literature with regard to the impact of dividend announcements and market efficiency on stock prices in the Namibian …
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The determinants of the market reaction to an announcement of a change in auditor
The Securities and Exchange Conunission (1974) has stated that the one of the fundamental underpinnings of federal securities law is the external auditor opinion of registrant financial statements. The SEC believes that the corporate practice of voluntary auditor change may be perceived by the …
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Raising Arizona: a visual rhetorical analysis of Kyrsten Sinema's and Martha McSally's 2018 campaign announcement videos
… Sinema’s and Martha McSally’s campaign video announcements as both candidates competed for the 2018 Arizona Senate. The primary research objective was to understand how the audience demographics and the rhetorical situation faced by each candidate affected the choice of visual components for …
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The announcement effect : the impact of early warnings of future thresholds under different framing and risk contexts
… goods game into a threshold public goods game. Announcements may change subject behaviour, through influencing their expectations, before the implementation of the new institution (adjustment effect) and/or after the implementation (adaptation effect).We find that announcements in the gains …
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The Impact of Meeting Analyst Earnings Expectations on the Market Response to the Announcement of Internal Control Weaknesses
In this study, I examine the impact of meeting analyst earning expectations on the market response to material weakness disclosures identified under Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2020. Utilizing a sample period spanning 15 years, I find that the market response to material …
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Depart from study or be deported? Exploring international students' crisis response to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's (ICE) announcement on TikTok
… their fears and concerns about the ICE announcement. Addressing the gap in TikTok literature, this study elucidated the connection between marginalized groups and their social media use at the time of crisis. This study paves a path for researchers in and beyond academia to study the …
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MEDIATED NARRATIVES ON CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF DREAMER IDENTITIES IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE SURROUNDING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2012 DEFERRED DEPORTATION ANNOUNCEMENT
… President Obama's 2012 deferred deportation announcement. My goals in this study are to understand (1) how citizenship is constructed in mediated discourse in response to President Obama's announcement; (2) how immigrant identities, specifically young undocumented immigrants (DREAMers), are …
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The impact of light rail transportation announcement and construction : the role of rail transit in property values, land use, demographics, equity, accessibility, and gentrification
… to examining any changes associated with the announcement and construction of a light rail project this report will qualitatively examine the role of these project in stimulating gentrification in station areas and what effect gentrification will have in preventing low-income households from …
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An examination of the price reaction to the announcement of bond issues by Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed companies on the Bond Exchange of South Africa
This paper examines the effect of straight debt announcements on the daily stock returns of Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed companies, on The Bond Exchange of South Africa (BESA), during the period 2000 to 2008. The study is an event study that uses the market model to generate expected …
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