While a firm's success increasingly relies on technological innovation, little is known, however, about whether and how analysts utilize information about a firm's technological innovation for their information production. We construct technological expertise for each analyst-firm pair based on...

We investigate whether and to what extent aggregate earnings forecasts by sell-side analysts and forecasts of macroeconomic indicators by economists convey different information about the macroeconomy, and whether such differences have implications for forecast efficiency and the stock market....

I investigate the dynamics of analyst forecast errors relative to economic policy uncertainty and find a significant positive relation between economic policy uncertainty and analyst forecast errors. A doubling of economic policy uncertainty is associated with a 4.29 percentage points increase...

Prior research finds that investors have difficulty pricing corporate innovation. This paper investigates the role of long-term growth forecasting financial analysts in the efficiency of stock prices and consensus sell-side analyst forecasts, with respect to information about firms' innovative...

I use controlled experiments to investigate the joint effects of forecast precision and forecast uncertainty on investor judgments. I find that forecast precision moderates the effects of forecast uncertainty on investors’ forecast reliability judgments such that the effects of forecast...