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- Title
Pension Plan Funding and Stock Market Efficiency.
- Authors
FRANZONI, FRANCESCO; MARÍN, JOSÉ M.
- Abstract
The paper argues that the market significantly overvalues firms with severely underfunded pension plans. These companies earn lower stock returns than firms with healthier pension plans for at least 5 years after the first emergence of the underfunding. The low returns are not explained by risk, price momentum, earnings momentum, or accruals. Further, the evidence suggests that investors do not anticipate the impact of the pension liability on future earnings, and they are surprised when the negative implications of underfunding ultimately materialize. Finally, underfunded firms have poor operating performance, and they earn low returns, although they are value companies.
- Subjects
UNDERFUNDED pension plans; LIABILITIES (Accounting); PENSIONS; WAGES; RETIREMENT income; STOCK prices; RATE of return; INVESTORS; EFFICIENT market theory; FINANCIAL performance; MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Finance (Wiley-Blackwell), 2006, Vol 61, Issue 2, p921
- ISSN
0022-1082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6261.2006.00859.x