Asymmetric Learning from Prices and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift
77 Pages Posted: 20 Nov 2013 Last revised: 24 Sep 2018
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Asymmetric Learning from Prices and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift
Asymmetric Learning from Prices and Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift
Date Written: September 14, 2018
Abstract
Motivated by research in psychology and experimental economics, we assume that investors update their beliefs about an asset's value upon observing the price, but only when the price clearly reveals that others obtained private information that differs from their own private information. In particular, we assume that investors learn from the price of an asset in an asymmetric manner--they learn from the price if they observe good (bad) private information and the price is worse (better) than what is justified based on public information alone. We show that asymmetric learning from an asset's price leads to post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD), and that it generates arbitrage opportunities that are less attractive than alternative explanations of PEAD. In addition, our model predicts that PEAD will be concentrated in earnings surprises that are not dominated by accruals, and it also predicts that earnings response coefficients will decline in the magnitude of the earnings surprises.
Keywords: Post-Earnings Announcement Drift, Learning from Price, False Consensus Effect, Market Undereaction
JEL Classification: D80, G02, G14, M41
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