Since 2015, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has disclosed initial public offering (IPO) companies’ review outcomes and hearing questions. For 15% of the companies that pass the IPO screening process, the CSRC also discloses some of their hearing questions that require further...

We study whether analysts' recommendations and the market's reactions to recommendation changes are influenced by the structure of analysts' research portfolios. We find that analysts maintain more positive recommendations for stocks that belong to the “core industry” in their research...