No news is bad news: Market reaction to reasons given for late filing of Form 10-K

Carol Callaway Dee, William Hillison and Carl Pacini

Research in Accounting Regulation, 2010, vol. 22, issue 2, 121-127

Abstract: We examine the relation between reasons provided by management for late filing of Form 10-K and the market reaction to news of the late filing. We find negative abnormal returns for firms providing inadequate or boilerplate reasons for late filing (no attribution), and positive abnormal returns for firms that provide apparently legitimate reasons for late filing (attributions). Regression analyses show a positive relation between attributions and two-day CARs, after controlling for the type of earnings news in the notification of late filing found in Form 12b-25 (positive or negative news).

Keywords: Capital markets; Late filers; SEC Form 10-K; SEC Form 12b-25; Attribution theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.racreg.2010.07.007

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