Distress risk anomaly and misvaluation
Distress risk anomaly and misvaluation
This paper examines the effects of misvaluation on the well-documented negative relation between distress risk and stock returns (distress risk anomaly). Findings indicate that distress risk is negatively related to subsequent stock returns only in the subset of the most overvalued stocks, which is consistent with mispricing explanations provided by prior studies. The distress anomaly disappears after controlling for mispricing effects. Further analysis reveals earnings management to be one possible cause for the overvaluation of highly distressed firms. The results are robust to alternative specifications of distress risk and mispricing measures.
Asset pricing anomalies, Distress risk, Earnings management, Mispricing
Andreou, Christoforos K.
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Lambertides, Neophytos
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Panayides, Photis M.
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1 September 2021
Andreou, Christoforos K.
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Lambertides, Neophytos
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Panayides, Photis M.
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Andreou, Christoforos K., Lambertides, Neophytos and Panayides, Photis M.
(2021)
Distress risk anomaly and misvaluation.
British Accounting Review, 53 (5), [100972].
(doi:10.1016/j.bar.2020.100972).
Abstract
This paper examines the effects of misvaluation on the well-documented negative relation between distress risk and stock returns (distress risk anomaly). Findings indicate that distress risk is negatively related to subsequent stock returns only in the subset of the most overvalued stocks, which is consistent with mispricing explanations provided by prior studies. The distress anomaly disappears after controlling for mispricing effects. Further analysis reveals earnings management to be one possible cause for the overvaluation of highly distressed firms. The results are robust to alternative specifications of distress risk and mispricing measures.
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Distress Risk Anomaly and Misvaluation - 2021
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 December 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 December 2020
Published date: 1 September 2021
Keywords:
Asset pricing anomalies, Distress risk, Earnings management, Mispricing
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Local EPrints ID: 453779
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/453779
ISSN: 0890-8389
PURE UUID: eb099aaf-b33a-4621-8b70-8335a34f3797
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Neophytos Lambertides
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Photis M. Panayides
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