In the paper Do Investors See Through Mistakes in Reported Earnings?, forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, we test whether investors see through mistakes in reported earnings by examining market reaction to initially reported erroneous earnings and valuation of restating firms during the error period, before earnings are corrected. We also examine the long-run return performance of restating companies in three periods: (1) the period prior to the mistake (pre-error period); (2) the period after the mistake has been made but before the restatement (error period); (3) and the period after the restatement (post-restatement period). We focus on the error period, which we split into four quartiles.

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