CAR associated with SEO share lockups: Real or illusionary?

Beng Soon Chong; Zhenbin Liu

doi:10.1007/s11156-015-0510-8

CAR associated with SEO share lockups: Real or illusionary?

Beng Soon Chong^*, Zhenbin Liu

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance

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Abstract

This paper examines the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) associated with both the expiration and initiation of SEO share lockups. First, we find that the average CAR around the expiration of SEO share lockups is significantly negative, but this result is mainly attributed to inappropriate benchmarking of the CAR. Second, there is also, on average, a significant negative CAR at the initiation of SEO share lockups, but the negative CAR is a temporary phenomenon that reverses itself within a short period of time. Overall, our findings do not support the downward sloping demand curve hypothesis on the lockup expiration effect.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	513–541
Number of pages	29
Journal	Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Volume	47
Early online date	26 Mar 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-015-0510-8
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

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Accounting
Business, Management and Accounting(all)

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SEO
Lockup expiration
Cumulative abnormal return
Efficient market
Downward sloping demand curve
Temporary price pressure

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