environment and increasing analysts' earnings forecast accuracy. Using the implementation of China's Labor Contract Law as a quasi …

. We also conduct a study on the persistence of forecast accuracy across analysts and across stocks over the 15-year period … analyst forecast values and back-test a range of forecast-driven systematic strategies …

financial year-ends. A change in a median consensus forecast should be followed directly by a commensurate change in share price …

better understand how financial analysts forecast earnings. We focus on forecasts for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs … regression analysis finds that the severity of the pandemic increases analysts' forecast error and dispersion. Government … forecast error rises by more, for REITs, when focusing on Hospitality and Industrial properties, and dispersion rises by more …