Conducting Event Studies With Asia-Pacific Security Market Data

42 Pages Posted: 7 Dec 2005

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Charles J. Corrado

Deakin University - School of Accounting, Economics & Finance

Cameron Truong

Monash University; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Date Written: June 2007

Abstract

We investigate the effectiveness of several well-known parametric and nonparametric event study test statistics with security price data from the major Asia-Pacific security markets. Extensive Monte Carlo simulation experiments with actual daily security returns data reveal that the parametric test statistics are prone to misspecification with Asia-Pacific returns data. Two nonparametric tests, a rank test [Corrado and Zivney (1993)] and a sign test [Cowan (1992)] performed the best overall with market model excess returns computed using an equal weight index.

Keywords: Asia-Pacific stock markets, event study methods, Monte Carlo simulations

JEL Classification: C12, C14, C15, G14, G15

Suggested Citation

Corrado, Charles J. and Truong, Cameron, Conducting Event Studies With Asia-Pacific Security Market Data (June 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=868395 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.868395

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