Investopedia

Understanding Event Studies: Methods and Uses in Investing

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
New York Post

What’s a COVID-19 superspreader event? Six glaring examples

The term “superspreader event” has become a frequent refrain amid the global COVID-19 pandemic — with a recent incident occurring at a Long Island wedding that has seen more than 40 people infected.
San Francisco Fed

Financial Market Effects of FOMC Communication: Evidence from a New Event-Study Database

This paper introduces the U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD), a novel, public, and regularly updated dataset of financial market data around Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy ...
JD Supra

First Circuit Affirms District Court’s Exclusion of Event Study as Unreliable Under Daubert

In Bricklayers & Trowel Trades Int’l Pension Fund v. Credit Suisse Sec. (USA) LLC, No. 12-1750, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8994 (1st Cir. May 14, 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the First ...