In this paper we examine the monitoring activity of security analysis from the manager-shareholder conflict perspective. Using a unique data set of more than 400 UK firms tracked by security analysts over the 1999-2000 period, our preliminary evidence supports the view that security analysis...

In this paper we conduct an out-of-sample test of two behavioral theories that have been proposed to explain momentum in stock returns. We test the gradual-information-diffusion model of Hong and Stein (1999) and the investor conservatism bias model of Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny (1998) in a...

"In this paper we conduct an out-of-sample test of two behavioural theories that have been proposed to explain momentum in stock returns. We test the gradual-information-diffusion model of Hong and Stein (1999) and the investor conservatism bias model of Barberis et al. (1998) in a sample of...

In this paper we examine the relation between equity mispricing and arbitrage risk, and find that stocks with high arbitrage risk have higher estimated mispricing than stocks with low arbitrage risk. These results are not limited to high book-to-market or small capitalization stocks, and they...

In this paper, we examine whether abnormal analyst coverage influences the external financing of the firm. Controlling for self-selection bias in analysts' excessive coverage, we find that firms with high (low) excess analyst coverage consistently engage in higher (lower) external financing than...

In this paper, we examine whether the external financing and investment rate of the firm are influenced by abnormal analyst coverage. We find that firms with high (low) excess analyst coverage have consistently higher (lower) external financing and investment rate than firms of similar size in...

We investigate whether divergence of opinion among investors, manifested in the dispersion of analysts' earnings forecasts, plays an important role in asset pricing. Specifically, we test whether disagreement can explain the cross-sectional return difference between value and growth stocks over...

Several empirical studies show that investment strategies that favor the purchase of stocks with low prices relative to dividends, earnings, book value or other measures of value yield higher returns. Some of these studies imply that investors are too optimistic about (glamour) stocks that have...