forecasts, this bias tending to be higher in countries with less investor protection. This forecast bias declined significantly …

Using a value-weighted rather than an equally weighted regression, Easton and Sommers (2007) show that the upward bias … that the impact of any bias attributable to analysts' forecasts can be reduced to a statistically insignificant 0 ….4%. Second, we show that our estimates of the implied equity risk premium after removing the effect of this bias are between 3 …

Using analysts' multi-period earnings forecasts, this paper investigates whether analyst forecast errors are related to … higher information uncertainty, and (3) forecasts with longer forecast horizons (e.g., forecasts issued far before fiscal … year end). Adding forecast errors to a growth-return regression substantially reduces the coefficient on asset growth …