Takeover targets covered by more equity analysts receive higher premiums while their acquirers earn lower merger announcement returns. We confirm these results using exogenous shocks to coverage as instruments for coverage loss. The analyses also show that covered targets experience a permanent...

This research aims to examine empirically the overreliance on representativeness heuristic and anchoring-adjustment influences experienced by investors in forecasting future earnings. This research was a laboratory experiment with a design of 2x2 full factorial between subject. The results...

This chapter examines the relationship between agent-based modeling and economic decision-making experiments with human subjects. Both approaches exploit controlled “laboratory” conditions as a means of isolating the sources of aggregate phenomena. Research findings from laboratory studies...