Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift: Expected Growth Risk or Limits-to-Arbitrage?

62 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2020

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Dongcheol Kim

Korea University Business School

Deok-Hyeon Lee

Korea Development Bank

Byoung-Kyu Min

Hanyang University

Date Written: October 15, 2019

Abstract

To explain post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD), we suggest expected growth risk, which is measured as covariance between stock returns and expected future real GDP growth rates. We find that both expected growth rates and expected growth risk increase with standardized unexpected earnings, and expected growth risk is significantly priced in the cross-section of returns. The model including expected growth risk alone explains PEAD satisfactorily. We also find that after adjustment for expected growth risk, the systematic relation of PEAD with the degree of limits-to-arbitrage disappears. This indicates that the empirical evidence supporting the mispricing hypothesis due to limits-to-arbitrage is a consequence of the failure in incorporating appropriate risk and the drift is a manifestation of expected growth risk.

Keywords: Post-earnings-announcement drift, Expected growth risk, Expected real GDP growth, Limits-to-arbitrage, Pricing errors

JEL Classification: G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Kim, Dongcheol and Lee, Deok-Hyeon and Min, Byoung-Kyu, Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift: Expected Growth Risk or Limits-to-Arbitrage? (October 15, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3519702 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3519702

Dongcheol Kim (Contact Author)

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Deok-Hyeon Lee

Korea Development Bank ( email )

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Byoung-Kyu Min

Hanyang University ( email )

Seoul
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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