Table 5.
BMP test statistics for different lengths of the event window
| Full sample | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr | 3 Apr | 6 Apr | 7 Apr | 8 Apr | 9 Apr | 14 Apr | |
| Average cumulative st. abnormal return | 0.6636 | − 2.0294 | − 1.4901 | 0.5268 | − 0.4456 | 0.5085 | − 1.0488 |
| Test statistic tBMP | 1.4823 | − 3.1984 | − 1.9120 | 0.5834 | − 0.4397 | 0.4561 | − 0.8670 |
| Cumulative distribution function (%) | 93.0871 | 0.0691 | 2.7941 | 72.0200 | 33.0082 | 67.5850 | 19.2972 |
| Significance of negative st. abnormal return | *** | ** | |||||
| Reduced sample | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr | 3 Apr | 6 Apr | 7 Apr | 8 Apr | 9 Apr | 14 Apr | |
| Average cumulative st. abnormal return | 3.3784 | 0.1056 | − 0.4358 | 1.1337 | 0.6584 | 1.6642 | − 0.3047 |
| Test statistic tBMP | 6.7102 | 0.1480 | − 0.4972 | 1.1163 | 0.5777 | 1.3273 | − 0.2240 |
| Cumulative distribution function (%) | 100.0000 | 55.8815 | 30.9510 | 86.7863 | 71.8271 | 90.7803 | 41.1391 |
| Significance of negative st. abnormal return | |||||||
| Residual sample | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr | 3 Apr | 6 Apr | 7 Apr | 8 Apr | 9 Apr | 14 Apr | |
| Average cumulative st. abnormal return | − 0.3545 | − 2.8300 | − 1.8854 | 0.2993 | − 0.8596 | 0.0751 | − 1.3278 |
| Test statistic tBMP | − 0.7520 | − 4.2358 | − 2.2975 | 0.3147 | − 0.8055 | 0.0640 | − 1.0424 |
| Cumulative distribution function (%) | 22.6034 | 0.0011 | 1.0794 | 62.3522 | 21.0252 | 52.5509 | 14.8602 |
| Significance of negative st. abnormal return | *** | ** | |||||
Test statistics are calculated according to Formula (7). Each column represents the event window starting from 2 April and ending on the day reported in the header of the column. ***, ** and * represent a confidence level lower than 1%, 5% and 10% for the significance of negative abnormal return, respectively
Source own calculations