An Empirical Study On White-Collar Crime Announcement Effects On Shareholder Wealth : Evidence From Brazil
Using a sample of 45 companies with 56 separate crimes in Brazil from 2001 to 2012, this study is mainly examines whether the white-collar crime announcement leads to abnormal return to the shareholders. The main objective in this study is to .. investigate and identify the announcement effect o...
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my.unimas.ir.359222024-03-06T03:11:12Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35922/ An Empirical Study On White-Collar Crime Announcement Effects On Shareholder Wealth : Evidence From Brazil Law, Fung Yee HD Industries. Land use. Labor HD61 Risk Management Using a sample of 45 companies with 56 separate crimes in Brazil from 2001 to 2012, this study is mainly examines whether the white-collar crime announcement leads to abnormal return to the shareholders. The main objective in this study is to .. investigate and identify the announcement effect of white-collar crime towards the stock performance of the affected companies in Brazil. On the same time, it also to identify the stock market efficiency of the Brazil. This study adopted event study methodology and applied market model to determine the abnormal return for each securities. The AARs and CAARs for the overall sample of 56 announcements are insignificant at 5% level of significance. This implied that the white-collar crime does not have any impacts on the stock return on Brazil. So it can conclude that the strong efficiency market hypothesis supported on this study and these announcements bring little information value for investors Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2013 Final Year Project Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35922/1/Law%20Fung%20Yee%20ft.pdf Law, Fung Yee (2013) An Empirical Study On White-Collar Crime Announcement Effects On Shareholder Wealth : Evidence From Brazil. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished) |
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Using a sample of 45 companies with 56 separate crimes in Brazil from 2001
to 2012, this study is mainly examines whether the white-collar crime announcement
leads to abnormal return to the shareholders. The main objective in this study is to
..
investigate and identify the announcement effect of white-collar crime towards the
stock performance of the affected companies in Brazil. On the same time, it also to
identify the stock market efficiency of the Brazil. This study adopted event study
methodology and applied market model to determine the abnormal return for each
securities. The AARs and CAARs for the overall sample of 56 announcements are
insignificant at 5% level of significance. This implied that the white-collar crime
does not have any impacts on the stock return on Brazil. So it can conclude that the
strong efficiency market hypothesis supported on this study and these
announcements bring little information value for investors |
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An Empirical Study On White-Collar Crime Announcement Effects On Shareholder Wealth : Evidence From Brazil |
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An Empirical Study On White-Collar Crime Announcement Effects On Shareholder Wealth : Evidence From Brazil |
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