Positive and negative earnings and their interaction with stock returns: empirical evidence from the emerging market of Greece
by Panagiotis E. Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios Asteriou
International Journal of Accounting and Finance (IJAF), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009

Abstract: This study investigates the informational content of losses and their effect on the association between earnings and stock returns. Previous studies demonstrated that losses are less informative than positive earnings since they are not expected to prolong (Hayn, 1995). Our results prove that this hypothesis is existent in the Greek capital market. Additionally, the results indicate that the frequency of losses varies with firm size. Also, the estimated Earnings Response Coefficients (ERC) increases as the measurement interval of earnings and returns expands. Finally, the tests for the effect of mean reversion in earnings, as the cause for the low informativeness of losses, did not verify our initial hypothesis. Our results are consistent to earlier studies in the USA, Finland, Australia and the Baltic region.

Online publication date: Fri, 06-Nov-2009

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