Table 3

Stock liquidity and investors' misperception of the persistence of annual accruals

Et+1=γ0+γ1×ACCt+γ2×CASHt+υt+1
ARETt+1=β×(Et+1γ0γ1×ACCtγ2×CASHt)+εt+1
ParameterEstimateParameterEstimateParameterEstimateParameterEstimate
All
γ10.647**γ11.039**γ1γ10.392**γ1/γ110.606**
γ20.750**γ20.901**γ2γ20.151**γ2/γ210.201**
Liquidity: low
γ10.610**γ11.124**γ1γ10.514**γ1/γ110.843**
γ20.743**γ20.900**γ2γ20.158**γ2/γ210.212**
Liquidity: medium
γ10.652**γ11.099**γ1γ10.447**γ1/γ110.685**
γ20.729**γ21.014**γ2γ20.285**γ2/γ210.391**
Liquidity: high
γ10.637**γ10.804**γ1γ10.166**γ1/γ110.261**
γ20.673**γ20.689**γ2γ20.016γ2/γ210.024

Note(s): Table 3 reports results from the Mishkin test that investigates the effect of stock liquidity on the extent to which investors overestimate the persistence of annual accruals. Et+1 is income before extraordinary items of fiscal year t scaled by average total assets of fiscal years t and t+1. ACCt is the sum of change in net non-cash current operating assets and change in net non-current operating assets from fiscal year t−1 to fiscal year t scaled by average total assets of fiscal year t−1 and t. CASHt is the difference between Et and ACCt. ARETt+1 is the abnormal annual stock return that cumulates over a 12-month period starting from the fourth month after the end of fiscal year t+1. We follow the characteristic-based portfolio matching procedure proposed in Daniel et al. (1997) to compute the abnormal annual stock return. **, * and denote statistical significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% levels respectively, using a 2-tailed test

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