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14 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner 3.6. A quick summary of our knowledge 3.6.1. Qualitative properties Table 2highlights, in qualit ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 15 only sometime during a one-month window. In contrast to the short-horizon tests, long- h ...

16 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner deviation. The power functions also assume that return and abnormal return variances are the sam ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 17 empirical relation between volatility and size. Our qualitative results apply if ranking ...

18 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner (a) (b) (c) Fig. 2. (a) Power of event study for firms in the lowest volatility decile. (b) Powe ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 19 samples stratified by firm characteristics. A complete analysis of these issues would fo ...

20 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner would prove useful. Portfolio procedures seem less amenable to multivariate compar- isons than d ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 21 and Brown, 1968; Jones and Litzenberger, 1970), size effect (Banz, 1981), and earn- ings ...

22 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner beta risk of 1.0 when true beta risk is 1.5), the error in the estimated abnormal error is small ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 23 a quest for a better-and-improved model began. The search culminated in theFama and Fren ...

24 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner using otherwise similar nonevent firms”. An appealing feature of using BHAR is that buy-and-hold ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 25 a matched-firm approach to risk adjustment.Jaffe (1974)andMandelker (1974)in- troduced a ...

26 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner Inferences about the abnormal performance are on the basis of the estimatedapand its statistical ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 27 return horizons of many event firms overlap and also because many event firms are drawn ...

28 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner at long horizons”.^18 The notion that economy-wide and industry-specific factors would generate ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 29 in the data. The bias in the standard deviation assuming independence is given by the ra ...

30 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner the correlations (seeBernard, 1987). The difficulty is exacerbated by the fact that only a porti ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 31 Because the sample of firms experiencing a corporate event is not selected randomly by t ...

32 S.P. Kothari and J.B. Warner 4.4.3. The bottom line Despite positive developments in BHAR calibration methods, two general lo ...

Ch. 1: Econometrics of Event Studies 33 Basu, S., 1977. The investment performance of common stocks in relation to their price-e ...