Analyzing the Analysts: Career Concerns and Biased Earnings Forecasts
We examine security analysts' career concerns by relating their earnings forecasts to job separations. Relatively accurate forecasters are more likely to experience favorable career outcomes like moving up to a high-status brokerage house. Controlling for accuracy, analysts who are optimistic relative to the consensus are more likely to experience favorable job separations. For analysts who cover stocks underwritten by their houses, job separations depend less on accuracy and more on optimism. Job separations were less sensitive to accuracy and more sensitive to optimism during the recent stock market mania. Brokerage houses apparently reward optimistic analysts who promote stocks. Copyright 2003 by the American Finance Association.
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2003
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Authors: | Hong, Harrison ; Kubik, Jeffrey D. |
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Journal of Finance. - American Finance Association - AFA, ISSN 1540-6261. - Vol. 58.2003, 1, p. 313-351
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American Finance Association - AFA |
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