Research " Earnings Warnings: Market Reaction and Management Motivation "

This dissertation provides empirical evidence on the market reaction to earnings warnings and management’s motivation to issue earnings warnings. Earnings warnings are any earnings-related management voluntary disclosures made prior to the earnings announcement date.1 Firms use earnings warnings to provide timely information to their shareholders and investors as well as financial analysts regarding their expected current period performance prior to the earnings announcement date (Ip [1997], McLean [2001] and Stone [2002]). Kasznik and Lev [1995; hereafter KL] and Atiase, Supattarakul, and Tse [2003; hereafter AST] find a differential market reaction to earnings news between warning and no-warning scenarios (i.e., “the...