The Effects of Legal Regime on the Patterns of Stock Returns around ADR Earnings Announcements

Author

Tony Kang, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

This study examines the effects of legal regime on the patterns of stock returns surrounding the earnings announcements of American Depositary Receipt (ADR) programs. My results indicate that the properties of accounting earnings associated with the local legal regime of an ADR program spill over to U.S. GAAP reconciled earnings. In particular, I find that the market reacts significantly to the earnings announcements of the ADR programs from common law countries whose accounting earnings are known to be more conservative and timely, but not to those of the ADR programs from code law countries where the earnings are known to be less conservative and timely.

Discipline

Accounting | Corporate Finance | Portfolio and Security Analysis

Research Areas

Financial Performance Analysis

Publication

International Journal of Accounting

Volume

38

Issue

3

First Page

315

Last Page

328

ISSN

0020-7063

Identifier

10.1016/s0020-7063(03)00043-8

Publisher

Elsevier

Citation

Kang, Tony. The Effects of Legal Regime on the Patterns of Stock Returns around ADR Earnings Announcements. (2003). International Journal of Accounting. 38, (3), 315-328.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/265