Investopedia

Event Study: Definition, Methods, Uses in Investing and Economics

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Law

The Role of the Event Study in Loss Causation Analysis

The recent havoc in the markets might make it seem a propitious time to be a securities lawyer. However, plummeting stock prices present their own set of challenges to plaintiffs pursuing fraud claims ...
San Francisco Fed

U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database

This data series is part of the Center for Monetary Research. The U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD) collects high-frequency changes of interest rates and asset prices around Federal ...
JD Supra

First Circuit Affirms District Court’s Exclusion of Event Study as Unreliable Under Daubert

In Bricklayers & Trowel Trades Int’l Pension Fund v. Credit Suisse Sec. (USA) LLC, No. 12-1750, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8994 (1st Cir. May 14, 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the First ...