The long estimation window used in this study is because it included the y-intercept and slope of the prices in calculating the expected return when the market model is chosen to evaluate the abnormal return (Wong, 2011). There is a study of Brockett, Chen and Garven mentioned that the beta in the market model varies over the time and was used to account for the temporal changes in the return process (Pynnonen, 2005). Besides that, the event window suggested in the study of Teall (as cited by Phua & Liew, 2011) is typically 30 days before and after the event. Therefore, the length of the event window in this study will follow to the literature. 3.4.1.2 Establish firm selection criteria Next, choose an appropriate sample of firms experiencing the event is important when conducted the event study. From the official website of Security Commission Malaysia, there are a total of 48 announcements from a total of 38 companies. A total of 8 companies were involved in more than one announcement, therefore each of these companies is counted in one announcement which is its initial respective announcement (Phua & Liew, 2011). Likewise, one of eight companies was involved three announcements and the other seven companies were involved two announcements within January 1996 to December 2012. After filtering the data, the final sample is shown in the following table. Table 1: Final Sample of Target Companies with Respective Announcement Dates Target Company Announcement Date Repco Holdings Berhad Seal Incorporated Berhad Pilecon Engineering Berhad Chase Perdana Berhad Kiara Emas Asia Industries Berhad Fountain View Development Berhad Polymate Holdings Berhad Megan Media Holdings Berhad Welli Multi Corporation Berhad Mems Technolog... ... middle of paper ... ...ing event studies. The Journal of Risk and Insurance. 57(2). 282-306. Teall, J. (2012). Chapter 4: Event studies and back testing. Financial Econometrics modeliing. (lecturer notes) Retrieved dec 18, year, from Voon, M. L., Voon, S. L., & Phua, C. H. (2008). An empirical analysis of the determinants of corporate crime in Malaysia. International Applied Economics and Management Letters. 1(1). 13-17. Cronovich, R. (2007). Principles of Economics (4th edition). N. Gregory Mankiw. USA [power point] http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~mouyang/princ-ch28-presentation Mishkin, F. S. (2009). The Economics of Money, Banking & Financial Markets (2nd edition). (publisher: Addison Wesley) http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/7529/7710171/appendixes/ch07apx.pdf Lin, J. L. (2010). Event study analysis (lecturer note of Research Methods in Finance 2010) http://faculty.ndhu.edu.tw/~jlin/
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