We examine whether exogenous and extremely negative events such as terrorist attacks and mass shootings influence the sentiment and forecasts of sell-side equity analysts. We find that analysts who are local to these attacks issue forecasts that are relatively more pessimistic than the consensus...

We use a new disclosure-based approach to show that value-relevant information about publicly-traded firms is geographically distributed within the United States and the market is slow in aggregating this information. Firm fundamentals such as earnings and cash flows can be predicted using the...

We examine whether earnings forecasts of sell-side equity analysts are influenced by the forecasts of other analysts on other firms in the analyst portfolio. We find that analysts exhibit “social learning” where analyst optimism is negatively correlated with the recent forecast errors among...