Abnormal Return

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Abnormal Return

The difference between the expected return and the actual return on an investment. Abnormal returns may be either positive or negative; indeed an abnormal return may be negative even if the actual return is positive. That is, suppose the expected return on an investment is 7% and the actual return is 5%. While the investor has 5% more than he/she had when he/she started, the abnormal return is still -2%. On the other hand, if the expected return is 5% and the actual return is 9%, then there is a positive abnormal return of 4%. One may use an abnormal return to gauge the accuracy of various asset pricing models.

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where [mathematical expression not reproducible] is the cumulative abnormal return of share i during the event window [[[tau].sub.1]; [[tau].sub.2]], [R.sub.i,t] is the realized return of stock i on day t (1), [R.sub.M,t] is the return of the benchmark index of sector i, [[??].sub.i] and [[??].sub.i] are the regression estimates from an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression for 105 trading day estimation period until t = -10.

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They construct portfolios of firms that had few textual changes in quarter-to-quarter reports and firms that had many changes, and find that portfolios that were long "non-changers" and short "changers" earned a statistically significant value-weighted abnormal return of between 34 and 58 basis points per month--between 4 and 7 percent per year--over the following year.

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Table 3 presents abnormal returns over various event windows using the market-adjusted returns method (Brown and Warner, 1985), which is the daily abnormal return calculated as the firm-specific return minus the CRSP value-weighted market return.

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The difference between the actual return and the expected return on a given period is the abnormal return.

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(9.) The t-statistics that measure whether the Cumulative Abnormal Return is significantly different from zero over the event period window (t = l to t = k) are calculated using the dependence adjustment method as described by Brown and Warner (1985), with a holdout period from r = -30 to [??] is the variance of the abnormal return computed over the holdout period, M is the number of days in the event period, and A[R.sub.t] is the abnormal return on day t.