In this paper, we examine how inter-firm executive social connections between suppliers and major customers help promote communication that facilitates supplier accuracy in sales forecasts. We first document that suppliers provide more accurate revenue forecasts when their executives are...

This dissertation comprises two essays on earnings forecasting accuracy. Chapter 2 focuses on how management forecasting accuracy is affected by managers behavioral biases over time and Chapter 3 addresses how analyst portfolio design choices affect cross-sectional differences in analyst...

The corporate governance literature generally assumes that shareholders incentives to monitor management depend on how much of the firm the shareholders own. This dissertation proposes that another determinant of monitoring incentive is how long large shareholders intend to hold their shares,...