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TY - JOUR
T1 - Data snooping and the global accrual anomaly
AU - Leippold, Markus
AU - Lohre, Harald
PY - 2012/4/1
Y1 - 2012/4/1
N2 - Naïvely testing for accruals mispricing in 26 equity markets - one market at a time - we find statistical evidence of anomalous returns in some countries. However, some of these findings might well be spurious because of data snooping biases that arise when simultaneously testing several hypotheses. While the accrual anomaly is not deemed to be robust in some countries when properly accounting for multiple testing, we find the international momentum effect to by and large pass the battery of multiple testing procedures. Moreover, we find the few robust accrual anomalies vanishing in recent times, indicating that investors have been exploiting the mispricing.
AB - Naïvely testing for accruals mispricing in 26 equity markets - one market at a time - we find statistical evidence of anomalous returns in some countries. However, some of these findings might well be spurious because of data snooping biases that arise when simultaneously testing several hypotheses. While the accrual anomaly is not deemed to be robust in some countries when properly accounting for multiple testing, we find the international momentum effect to by and large pass the battery of multiple testing procedures. Moreover, we find the few robust accrual anomalies vanishing in recent times, indicating that investors have been exploiting the mispricing.
KW - accrual anomaly
KW - market efficiency
KW - momentum effect
KW - multiple hypotheses testing
U2 - 10.1080/09603107.2011.631892
DO - 10.1080/09603107.2011.631892
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84856893523
VL - 22
SP - 509
EP - 535
JO - Applied Financial Economics
JF - Applied Financial Economics
SN - 0960-3107
IS - 7
ER -