Insider trading, growth opportunities and the market reaction to new financing announcements*

ABSTRACT We examine how informed trading activities affect the market reaction to accounting restatements. We find significantly less negative reactions to accounting restatements when managers are net purchasers of stock before the restatement, and significantly more negative market reactions when managers are net sellers. Similar patterns characterize corporate trading, where prior stock repurchases dampen negative reactions and prior equity issuances increase negative reactions to the restatement. We address the possibility of reverse causality in which informed trades are undertaken because of the expected market reaction by examining the difference between disclosed and non-disclosed trades, finding that the market reaction is concentrated in the disclosed trades. Our results are incremental to general return patterns associated with insider trading and corporate equity transactions, and hold after controlling for other determinants of the market reaction to restatements. Taken together, these findings suggest that investors use informed trading activities to help interpret and price accounting restatements. JEL Classifications: M41, M42. Data Availability: Data are publicly available from the sources identified in the study.

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A Study on the Market Reaction of Airlines in Response to Changes in Their External Environment

Korean Journal of Industry Security ◽

10.33388/kais.2020.10.2.131 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 131-150

Author(s):

Hyun-Woo Lee ◽

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Jeong-Yeon Kim

Keyword(s):

Market Reaction ◽

External Environment

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Analysis of Factors Affecting Capital Structure in Food and Beverage Manufacturing Company

International Journal on Advanced Science Education and Religion ◽

10.33648/ijoaser.v1i2.7 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Nur Hajja Aini ◽

St Habibah

Keyword(s):

Capital Structure ◽

Firm Size ◽

Significant Influence ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Random Effect Model ◽

Manufacturing Companies ◽

Business Risk ◽

Growth Opportunities ◽

Food And Beverage ◽

The Capital Structure

The purpose of this research to analyze the influence of firm size, liquidity, growth opportunities, tangibility asset, and business risk to the capital structure of listed food and beverage manufacturing companies in Indonesia and Vietnam Stock Exchange from 2010 to 2016. The result shows that the fixed effects model should be appropriate for this study as compared to the random effect model. Capital structure significantly differences between the two countries. Firm size has a positive but insignificant influence on the capital structure in Indonesia, whereas it has a positive and a significant influence on the capital structure in Vietnam. Liquidity has a negative and significant influence on the capital structure both in Indonesia and Vietnam. Growth opportunities have a negative but insignificant influence on the capital structure both in Indonesia and Vietnam. Asset tangibility has a positive but insignificant influence on the capital structure in Indonesia, but it has the negative but insignificant influence on the capital structure in Vietnam. Ultimately, the business risk has a negative and significant influence on the capital structure in Indonesia but has a positive and insignificant influence on the capital structure in Vietnam.

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