Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

This study examines the effect of natural catastrophes on the stock returns of the firms listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand stock exchange and operating in automobile and parts, construction and material, food producers, technology hardware and equipment, and travel"and leisure industr...

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Main Author: Kho, Geok Hui
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2012
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10181/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10181/4/Geok%20full.pdf
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description This study examines the effect of natural catastrophes on the stock returns of the firms listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand stock exchange and operating in automobile and parts, construction and material, food producers, technology hardware and equipment, and travel"and leisure industry. This study only examines the effect of natural catastrophes on the stock returns in the post-event. An event study methodology has been employ in this study by adopted CAPM to estimate the AR and CAAR for the event period. The result shows that, the effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices is negative to the industries in Indonesia and Thailand. Only industries in Malaysia had the positive to the natural catastrophes on stock prices. Overall, the finding indicates that natural catastrophes have effect to the stock prices. In addition, the results seemed to indicate that the market in Malaysia is more or less efficient except for few days and in Indonesia and Thailand market are somewhat inefficient.
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spelling unimas-101812023-08-11T03:34:31Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10181/ Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand Kho, Geok Hui HB Economic Theory This study examines the effect of natural catastrophes on the stock returns of the firms listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand stock exchange and operating in automobile and parts, construction and material, food producers, technology hardware and equipment, and travel"and leisure industry. This study only examines the effect of natural catastrophes on the stock returns in the post-event. An event study methodology has been employ in this study by adopted CAPM to estimate the AR and CAAR for the event period. The result shows that, the effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices is negative to the industries in Indonesia and Thailand. Only industries in Malaysia had the positive to the natural catastrophes on stock prices. Overall, the finding indicates that natural catastrophes have effect to the stock prices. In addition, the results seemed to indicate that the market in Malaysia is more or less efficient except for few days and in Indonesia and Thailand market are somewhat inefficient. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2012 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10181/4/Geok%20full.pdf Kho, Geok Hui (2012) Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
Kho, Geok Hui
Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
title Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
title_full Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
title_fullStr Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
title_short Effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
title_sort effect of natural catastrophes on stock prices : evidence from indonesia, malaysia and thailand
topic HB Economic Theory
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10181/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10181/4/Geok%20full.pdf