In this paper, we use an analyst’s coverage portfolio as the unit of analysis and argue that the linkage among the portfolio firms can provide useful information for analyst forecasts at the portfolio level. In particular, the geographic overlap in the portfolio firms’ global sales network...

Suppliers that are farther away from their customers make more relationship-specific investments (RSI). This association is more pronounced when it is less costly for the customer to switch to alternative suppliers and when the supplier operates in relatively opaque information environments....

Using Regulation SHO as natural experiment, we find that work-related injury and illness rates increase significantly at treated firms relative to the control group. The effect is more pronounced for firms in more competitive industries, firms in which labor has low negotiating power with...