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Non-Diversifiable Volatility Risk and Risk Premiums at Earnings Announcements

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dc.contributor So, Eric
dc.creator Barth, Mary E.
dc.creator So, Eric
dc.date 2017-09-05T15:17:32Z
dc.date 2017-09-05T15:17:32Z
dc.date 2014-03
dc.date 2013-01
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T08:02:41Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T08:02:41Z
dc.identifier 0001-4826
dc.identifier 1558-7967
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111118
dc.identifier Barth, Mary E., and So, Eric C. “Non-Diversifiable Volatility Risk and Risk Premiums at Earnings Announcements.” The Accounting Review 89, 5 (September 2014): 1579–1607
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9345-2123
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/275948
dc.description This study seeks to determine whether earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk that commands a risk premium. We find that investors anticipate some earnings announcements to convey news that increases market return volatility and pay a premium to hedge this non-diversifiable risk. In particular, we find evidence of risk premiums embedded in prices of firms' traded options that are significantly positively associated with the extent to which the firms' earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk. In addition, we find that volatility risk premiums are concentrated among bellwether firms and result in predictable variation in option straddle returns around earnings announcements. Taken together, our findings show that some earnings announcements pose non-diversifiable volatility risk that commands a risk premium.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher American Accounting Association
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/accr-50758
dc.relation The Accounting Review
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source Prof. So via Shikha Sharma
dc.title Non-Diversifiable Volatility Risk and Risk Premiums at Earnings Announcements
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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