An Empirical Investigation of the Association between Earnings and Stock Returns-Comparison of East Asian Market

• Main Authors: Yi-fen Lin, 林怡芬
• Other Authors: Meng-Ping Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01495514125887992281

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 會計學系 === 94 === The status of East Asia is increasingly important. East Asia plays an important role on the whole world. The economy of new developing market in East Asia is growing rapidly, helps the international economy to expand continuously, and offset the slowness of development in economy of Europe and Japan. The market in East Asia will influence the whole world deep and far in the future. Therefore, the study plans to understand the five capital markets of East Asia－Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia and examine the relationship between macroeconomic indicators and earnings response coefficient every market. After a series of examination and analysis, it can be concluded as follows: 1.In East Asia Korea shows highly significant positive correlation between macroeconomic indicators and earnings response coefficient. 2.After the financial crisis of East Asia, The economy of East Asia grew up steadily since 2002. The incidents, for example a series of terrorist incidents, Iraq War, SARS epidemic, avian flu, and South Asia tsunami, cause investors to have no confidence to market. There are many factors, for example the differences of market, economic development, laws, and accounting basis, leading the relationship between macroeconomic indicators and earnings response coefficient not to have significant positive correlation.