A Comparison of Relations Between Security Market Prices, Returns and Accounting Measures in Japan and the United States |
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| Authors: | Charles Hall Yasushi Hamao Trevor S. Harris |
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| Affiliation: | Doctoral Candidate;Associate Professors at Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Address correspondence to authors at Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, Uris Hall, New York, NY 10027. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University. Yasushi Hamao's research was supported in part by the Batterymarch Fellowship;Trevor Harris' research was sponsored in part by the Rudolph Schoenheimer Fellowship. |
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| Abstract: | We examine associations between accounting measures of earnings and stock returns in Japan over varying window lengths and compare them to those for the United States. Our results are consistent with the view that Japanese investors utilize less accounting information in their pricing of equities than do their U.S. counterparts. This was particularly evident in the 'boom' period of the mid to late 1980s when the fundamental values conveyed by accounting measures appear to have been largely ignored. The association increases with the inclusion of 1991, suggesting a return to more emphasis on fundamentals with the recent decline in stock prices. |
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