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Joshua Livnat
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 119
Citations - 5387
Joshua Livnat is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Earnings & Post-earnings-announcement drift. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 114 publications receiving 4892 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua Livnat include Vanderbilt University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Comparing the Post–Earnings Announcement Drift for Surprises Calculated from Analyst and Time Series Forecasts
TL;DR: This paper showed that the post-earnings announcement drift is significantly larger when defining the earnings surprise using analysts' forecasts and actual earnings from I/B/E/S than when using a time series model based on Compustat earnings data.
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Management’s tone change, post earnings announcement drift and accruals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether the management discussion and analysis (MD&A) section of Form 10-Q and 10-K has incremental information content beyond financial measures such as earnings surprises and accruals.
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Differential Market Reactions to Revenue and Expense Surprises
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated investors' reactions to revenue and expense surprises around preliminary earnings announcements and found that investors value more highly a dollar of revenue surprise than a dollars of expense surprise.
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Diversification strategies, business cycles and economic performance
Raphael Amit,Joshua Livnat +1 more
TL;DR: It is reaffirmed that firms which diversify into related businesses have, on the average, higher profitability than non-diversified firms, although these results are not always statistically significant.
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Revenue surprises and stock returns
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between revenue surprises and contemporaneous and future stock returns and investigated whether analysts update their earnings forecasts in response to revenue surprises in a timely and unbiased fashion.