2017
DOI: 10.15604/ejbm.2017.05.03.001
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The Information Content of Earnings Announcements in the European Insurance Market: An Event Study Analysis

Abstract: We contribute to the extensive literature on the relationship between earnings announcements and market reactions by investigating the European insurance sector, which presents a wide difference in transparency between quarterly and semi-annual/annual reports. We design an event-study analysis comprising over 900 events in the period 2009-2016, testing if investors react differently to the two subsets of reports. We find that quarterly reports result in signals on stock prices' limited to few trading days, whe… Show more

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