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Conditioning the Return-Generating Process on Firm-Specific Events: A Discussion of Event Study Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Rex Thompson
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Empirical investigations into the codetermination of security prices and economic events are called event studies. There are several ways of estimating the codetermination of interest. Since Fama, Fisher, Jensen, and Roll [8], it has been general practice to first translate variables into rates of return, then net out general market movements, and, finally, examine the relationship between residual returns and events. The methodology in all of its variants falls under the rubric of “residual analysis.”

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 151 - 168
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1985

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