Market reaction to grouping equities in stock markets: An empirical analysis on Borsa Istanbul

YILDIZ Y., KARAN M. B., PİRGAİP B.

BORSA ISTANBUL REVIEW, vol.17, no.4, pp.216-227, 2017 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 17 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.bir.2017.08.001
  • Journal Name: BORSA ISTANBUL REVIEW
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, EconLit, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Page Numbers: pp.216-227
  • Keywords: Equity grouping, Regulation, Price and volume effects, S-AND-P-500 INDEX ADDITIONS, DEMAND CURVES, PRICE, DELETIONS
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to investigate the market reaction to stock grouping announcements in Borsa Istanbul which requires stocks to be classified into groups "A ", "B" and "C" according to their market capitalization and floating rates. By utilizing event study analysis, our results suggest that grouping announcements have significant effect on stock prices and trading volume. The event day positive (negative) relationship between abnormal return and volume for the upgraded (downgraded) stocks supports the downward sloping demand curve hypothesis. Moreover, findings also suggest that stocks which are upgraded to Group A are exposed to more attention which is in line with the attention hypothesis. The reverse is valid for the downgraded firms. We find no evidence of price reversals and long-term symmetrical liquidity effect which lead us to reject price pressure and liquidity hypotheses. Finally, we reach controversial evidence for the information hypothesis. Copyright (c) 2017, Borsa Istanbul Anonim Sirketi. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NCND license