A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan

This study investigates the market reaction towards the board of director changes announcement in Malaysia. The study period covers from January 2006 to December 2006. This study used standard event study methodology to find the stock reactions towards those announcements. From the 60 companies sele...

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Main Author: Hassan, Nur Azura
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Language:English
Published: 2007
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spelling uitm-280652020-01-31T07:55:20Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28065/ A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan Hassan, Nur Azura Management. Industrial Management Marketing This study investigates the market reaction towards the board of director changes announcement in Malaysia. The study period covers from January 2006 to December 2006. This study used standard event study methodology to find the stock reactions towards those announcements. From the 60 companies selected, this study of new appointments and resignations announcement reveals that there was no significant effect on the wealth of the concern firms. From the test period of 30 days before and after the announcements, this study found that there were no significant relationship between average abnormal returns and cumulative abnormal returns around the announcement day. The CAR on day -30, -3 is 1.62%, while the CAR for five day event window (-2, +2) is 0.22%. The last one is the third event window (+3, +30), where it consists of 28 days. The CAR for the third event window is 1.700.10. As a conclusion, this hypotheses testing determined that in answering the Hypothesis 1 and Hypothesis 2, the researcher rejects Ha and does not reject Ho. That means, there were no significant relationship between average abnormal returns and cumulative abnormal returns around the announcement day. 2007 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28065/1/TD_NUR%20AZURA%20HASSAN%20BM%2007_5.pdf Hassan, Nur Azura (2007) A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan. Degree thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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Hassan, Nur Azura
A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan
description This study investigates the market reaction towards the board of director changes announcement in Malaysia. The study period covers from January 2006 to December 2006. This study used standard event study methodology to find the stock reactions towards those announcements. From the 60 companies selected, this study of new appointments and resignations announcement reveals that there was no significant effect on the wealth of the concern firms. From the test period of 30 days before and after the announcements, this study found that there were no significant relationship between average abnormal returns and cumulative abnormal returns around the announcement day. The CAR on day -30, -3 is 1.62%, while the CAR for five day event window (-2, +2) is 0.22%. The last one is the third event window (+3, +30), where it consists of 28 days. The CAR for the third event window is 1.700.10. As a conclusion, this hypotheses testing determined that in answering the Hypothesis 1 and Hypothesis 2, the researcher rejects Ha and does not reject Ho. That means, there were no significant relationship between average abnormal returns and cumulative abnormal returns around the announcement day.
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author Hassan, Nur Azura
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title A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan
title_short A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan
title_full A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan
title_fullStr A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan
title_full_unstemmed A study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in Malaysia / Nur Azura Hassan
title_sort study of the market reaction towards board of director changes announcement in malaysia / nur azura hassan
publishDate 2007
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28065/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28065/1/TD_NUR%20AZURA%20HASSAN%20BM%2007_5.pdf
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