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- Information environment euality andidiosyncratic return volatility: evidence from UKPublication . Pereira, Cláudia; Cerqueira, AntónioThis paper examines the cross-section relation-ship between the quality of a firm’s information environment and idiosyncratic return volatility, for a sample of UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange. Using panel data, we find that poor accruals quality is statistically associated with higher firm-specific return volatility. This association also holds for other measures used for the quality of the information environment: dispersion in analysts’ forecasts, the innate component of accruals quality, which reflects the uncertainty about the nature of the firm’s business and the discretionary component of accruals quality, which is related to managerial discretionary choices. More specifically, we find that adding the dispersion in analysts’ forecasts increases the explanatory power for idiosyncratic volatility of the remaining measures of the quality of the information environment. Our results are consistent with the noise-based approach of idiosyncratic volatility. These findings are likely to contribute to the debate on whether idiosyncratic return volatility captures more firm-specific information being impounded into stock prices or essentially reflects noise.
- Does idiosyncratic return volatility capture information or noise?Publication . Pereira, Cláudia; Cerqueira, AntónioThis paper examines the association between earnings management and firm-specific return volatility for a sample of firms listed on the London Stock Exchange. Identifying the determinants of idiosyncratic volatility has been a topical issue since the Campbell et al. (2001) study which documents a noticeable increase in average firm-level volatility across time. Using panel data, we find that poor information environments resulting from earnings management is associated with higher firm-specific return volatility. This finding is consistent with the noise-based approach of firm-specific return volatility. In addition we provide empirical evidence that such association gets stronger when combining accruals quality and the dispersion in analysts’ forecast to describe a poor information environment. These findings are likely to contribute to the debate on whether firm-specific return volatility captures more firm-specific information being impounded in stock prices or essentially reflects noise.