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The Effect of Information Asymmetry on Bid-Ask Spreads Around Earnings Announcements by NASDAQ Firms

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  • Samuel Tung

    (School of Business, The Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China)

Abstract

This paper empirically tests Kim and Verrecchia's (1994, hereafter KV) theory that bid-ask spreads may increase around earnings announcements when information asymmetry increases between the informed traders and the less informed market-makers. Despite certain limitations, prior research has used analysts' earnings forecasts as a proxy for information asymmetry. I substitute the percentage of common stocks held by institutional investors as a more precise proxy for information asymmetry. Consistent with KV's proposition, I find (1) that bid-ask spreads increase at the time of earnings announcements, and (2) that bid-ask reactions to earnings announcements are significantly positively related to information asymmetry even after controlling for the effects of other cross-sectional determinants of spreads.

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  • Samuel Tung, 2000. "The Effect of Information Asymmetry on Bid-Ask Spreads Around Earnings Announcements by NASDAQ Firms," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(03), pages 331-346.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:rpbfmp:v:03:y:2000:i:03:n:s0219091500000157
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219091500000157
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    Cited by:

    1. Pieter T. Elgers & May H. Lo & Wenjuan Xie & Le Emily Xu, 2016. "A Contextual Evaluation of Composite Forecasts of Annual Earnings," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(03), pages 1-40, September.
    2. Robert Freeman & Adam Koch & Haidan Li, 2011. "Can historical returns-earnings relations predict price responses to earnings news?," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 35-62, July.
    3. Dina El-Mahdy & Myung Park, 2014. "Internal control quality and information asymmetry in the secondary loan market," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 43(4), pages 683-720, November.
    4. Federica Salvadè, 2018. "Is less information better information? Evidence from the credit rating withdrawal," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 51(1), pages 139-157, July.
    5. Andrew Buskirk, 2012. "Disclosure frequency and information asymmetry," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 38(4), pages 411-440, May.
    6. Lucy Lim, 2016. "Dual-class versus single-class firms: information asymmetry," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 46(4), pages 763-791, May.
    7. Zhefeng Liu & Fayez Elayan, 2015. "Litigation risk, information asymmetry and conditional conservatism," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 44(4), pages 581-608, May.
    8. Beixin Lin & Rong Yang, 2012. "Does Regulation Fair Disclosure affect analysts’ forecast performance? The case of restructuring firms," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 38(4), pages 495-517, May.

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    Keywords

    institutional ownership; market reaction; market liquidity; cost of capital;
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    JEL classification:

    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

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