# kaal:claim:2629451-017

**Claim.** Around the DOJ announcement, N/DPA firms show a significant positive cumulative abnormal return trend before day minus five, a significant drop at day minus five, and negative CARs relative to matched competitors from day minus four to day minus one.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- 94 N/DPA firms matched to 94 direct competitors by market capitalization
- window t=-25 to t=25 around ANDPAE

**Source quote.**

> the CARs for N/DPA firms show a significant positive trend before t=-5, followed by a significant drop at -5 before the event date t=0 ANDPAE and negative CARs in comparison with the competitors from t=-4 to t=-1.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, *Stock Price Response to Non- and Deferred Prosecution Agreements* (2015), IV. Univariate Analyses, page 9

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, Stock Price Response to Non- and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (2015). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2629451

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `507404d641abb922ab6d8e3a0b032e35ead2befd7b88746d09d178a8fa816957` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20and%20Lacine%20-%202015%20-%20Stock%20Price%20Response%20to%20Non-%20and%20Deferred%20Prosecution%20Agreements.pdf

**Topics.** research-methods

**Keywords.** cumulative-abnormal-return, announcement-effect, competitor-matching, event-study

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