Bad news does not always travel fast: evidence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings

Luís Miguel Serra Coelho and Henk Berkman

Accounting and Finance, 2015, vol. 55, issue 2, 415-442

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This paper examines the stock price performances of 275 non-financial, non-utility U.S. industrial firms that continue trading on the main exchanges after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy between 1 October 1979 and 17 October 2005. This paper identifies a negative and statistically significant post-bankruptcy drift that lasts for at least 6 months. This finding adds to the literature showing that the market is unable to process bad public news events in a timely manner. Further analysis suggests that the theoretical model proposed by Hong and Stein (1999) can be used to help explain this market-pricing anomaly.

Date: 2015
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