Event Studies for Financial Research

Download or read book Event Studies for Financial Research written by D. Kliger and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Event Studies are overwhelmingly widespread in financial research, providing tools for shedding light on market efficiency, as well as measuring the impact of various occurrences on public firms' security prices. Mastering the Event Study approach is essential for researchers and practitioners alike. Event Studies for Financial Research aims to help readers obtain valuable hands-on experience with Event Study tools and gain technical skills for conducting their own studies. Kliger and Gurevich provide a detailed application of their approach, which consists of: a description of the method; references; guided applications; and elaborated framework for implementing the applications.