Limited Attention and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift: Evidence from China s Stock Market

Qian Chen, Xiang Gao and Gangchen Liu
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Qian Chen: Business School, Shenzhen Technology University, China,
Gangchen Liu: Graduate Student at Peking University, HSBC Business School, China.

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: This paper utilizes Chinese stock data to provide further evidence on the power of limited attention theory in explaining post-earnings announcement drift. As retail investors prevail in China and they are easily distracted by market swings, we should expect severe attention problems, resulting in larger underreaction to firm information and higher sensitivity to market movement, i.e., the so-called market movement effect . After accounting for special arrangements such as preannouncements and earnings previews, we confirm a strong presence of this effect in Chinese stock market, given the Friday effect and announcement concentration effect being controlled for. Moreover, the effect is asymmetric in market up and down, and becomes more pronounced for small-cap and value stocks.

Keywords: Limited attention; earnings announcement; market movement; China s stock market; abnormal returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 G14 G41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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